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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1874)
17. 8. Official Paper Tar rngrn. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1874. " Rain. Rain has fallen nearly every day this week. Weather cloudy, with indications of more of the same kind. Latest advices from Liverpool quote wheat average, 12s 8d12s 6d; club, 12s 7d12s lOd. Dr. J. C. Bolon is to read the "Declaration" at the Hamsburg celebration. A campmeeting is to be held on the Calipooia, west of Tangent, commencing on next Friday. Mr. ( -rouse, of the sawmill, pro poses to make a flying visit to the East in a month or two. Councilman Cowan has thrown up his sit and a new man will be selected to fill the vacancy. Thanks to Mart. Paine for a branch full of delicious cherries last week. Mr. Bnrrell, of Knapp, Burrell & Portland, and Mr. Swan, manufacturer of the Moline Plow, were in this city during the week. Everybody is getting out their old fusees and burnishing them up ready to properly usher in the glor ions fourth. Postmaster General Cresswell has tendered his resignation, and the President has tendered the ap pointment to Eugene Hale, of Maine. Lakgk Band of Sheep. A large bawl of sheep, a thousand or more, passed through the city on Tuesday, en route for the grass lands east of the Ca cades. Received. Through the polite ness of the;Secretary, E. M. Waite, we are In "receipt of the list of pre miums for the Oregon State Fair for 1874. Wagons. - Large numbers of I Eastern built wagons, of different makes, are now to be found in our markets. The supply of harvesters, plows, seed drills, and farming ma chinery and implements generally, was never so large. On Thursday three different rain clouds were observed in Albany prairie, discharging copious showers at the same time,miles apart. Dur ing the afternoon twooftheseclouds came together, bursted with a loud noise, and tor a while there was a second deluge in that neighborhood. , , . The Beocber-Tilton Scandal has been re-opeued by Theodore Tilton, who publishes a seven column ar ticle in the Golden Age, corrobo rating the scandalous disclosures made by Victoria Woodhnll some time 6kice. We hope this timo that the charges against Jieecher will be thoroughly sifted, and the wbl truth brought to light. mm 9 " La Dow (Dem) beats Williams (Rep) 302 votes; Cbadwiek (Dem) beats Foeter(Rep)' ,3W A. H. Brown (Dem) beats D. G. Clark (Rep) 1,185; Rowland (Rep) beau? Dawne (Dem) 40. llWin;thj.Stote, W rfc! Burtb fefr own "snrabbery this ery JodleliU EJecUoa. In the Second District Burnett (Tnd) beats Mosher (Dera) 69 votes. Fitch, Prosecuting Attorney, is elected over Chenpweth, 267 votes. In the Third District Whitney beats Humphrey 867 votes. In the Fourth District, forjudge, Shattnck (Ind) beats Johnson (Rep) 1,373 ; Thompson (Ind), for Prose- cuting Attorney, boats Morelaud (Rep) 662. In the Fifth District Laswell, (Dem), for Prosecutiug Attorney, beats Cartwright (Rep) 962. PSWHO-THEHAPITTICS. THE APPLICATION OP HYPNOTISM AND THE MAGNET TO THE RE LIEF OF PAIN AND CURE OF DIS EASE. The medical world became much excited some months since over a new method for relieving pain and curing disease in a speedy and effectual manner, without the use e , , ' , of drugs and nostrums. The dis- covery was reported to have been , . . ... made by two eminent physicians of r California, and to have been evolv ed from experiments made by them irpon patients iu hospital and in private practice. Reports were daily received of the wonderful cures effected, which were published in the local papers, and not only occasioned ranch local excitement, but were copied and commented on far and wide. The doctors hearing of the sue cess of Hypnotism, of course began to ridicule the new theory, and soon precipitated a war of newspaper cards, followed by a rapid firing of epigrams, charged with satire and sarcasm, nntil the public mind, confused with the arguments ad- . , , 6 vanced on both sides, at last settled down to the conclusion that Hyp notism had at least afforded much amusement to the outsider, whether its miraculous claims were well founded or not, and the main ques tion was lost sight of hi the interest that centered in the wrangle among the doctors. It may be as well to state here that the physicians who were practicing the new plan madi n0 pretensions to having discovered a new principle, but this did not save them from the charge of pla giarism that was unjustly hurled at therapy other members of the pro fession, although in;good humor, butwitbthe view of detracting from the importance of their exper iments, and the consideration to which they were entitled. Meanwhile the physicians who had commenced to practice the new plan, were quietly pursuing their experiments, undeterred by the rid icule of their contemporaries, and the remarkable success which at tended their labors is sufficient Tin. dicatiou of their sound judgment and honesty of purpose. A letter recently received from a medical gentleman of high standing in the profession in California, says: "You will find Hypnotism a the rapeutical agent of incalculable value in practice. Let it be imagi nation or not to wbich those extra ordinary physical effects are attrib utable, it is certain that the imagi nation has never been capable of being made to afct in the same ben eficial manner by any other mode of management ever before known. We da not wish or care whether the Datieiit believes Or not thYrmht pit. It is not magnetism. It is Mitotic (MiMtoMUmL I &t T eaAfspiaio- bat 4? for ALBANY REGISTER. yourself, and tell me what it is, for I only know the results, and although I cannot explain, I care but little and my patients care less, so long as they feel and know its efficacy' The following wonderful cures are reported : Hanipkifia (palsey). Vion, a native of France, aged sixty years, had been paralysed on the right side about three years, and had not walked without crutches for several months. Was hypnotised on the 22d of January and the tractors passed over the palsied limls and side. Iu six minutes he expressed himself as free from pain, and being told to get up and walk, did so without pain, crutches or stick The improvement since has been market! aud progressive. PftrujtUtjia (palsy). Valasco, a native of Gibraltar, aged thirty-nine years, was admitted to the hospital iu 3iav. 18C8. Benin nara Ivrad ' fc , . A . , I from the hip dowu, he had never . .. . ' . .. been able to stand upon his feet L..,....! j , e, I unsupported during a period of five , , ... , , , , , and n hair raoru qui hid cl.mn KaH been greatly disturbed by muscular jerks and twitchings. He was hypnotised for the first time on the 22d of January, aud when the trac tor mas passed over the legs they were thrown into a violent convul sive action, becoming passive again when the tractor was withdrawn, only to be renewed with each suc cessive pass for a period of three minutes, after which lie became quiet, and in eight minutes stood upon his feet without support, tak iiig two steps without assistance. He has steadily improved from the begiuniug, has walked half a mile by the aid of a walking-stick in M, , A . , . leach uand, and across the ward without them. The muscular twitching has entirely ceased. Partial Paralysis, Mrs. S ofIarysville, and Mrs. E , of Sacramertn enmity, lxth elderly ladies, and J.r. ( of Yuba countyum old man, were all simi larly nfti'cted, the V't arm of each l.eii.g partially palsied, so that the hand could not be raised above the month. All of the cases were of several years1 standing. Each was Operated upon for five minutes only. All were cured by a single operation hi.i could use the haul previously 7,1 with nerfect freedom. ,,iacin- it beliid the back or raov' :111T , ,&"dhi,ti,m tti AA , - - . . . , , v , n IV Ml.-Ilvll. .o medicine was given. Acute InflamMuton Jlheuma-timt-f . Rb -, aged forty, black smith; was attacked with rheuma tism -of bo$h hands and wrists, ac comjnied with excruciating pain, great swelling and redness ; was hypnotised, jnd in less than ten minutes ali o? these symptoms had disappeared. I saw him the next day, when the pain had not return- ed, and learn that he is still well, although six weeks have elapsed since the operation. No medicine given at the time or since. Owing to the crowded state of our columns tnis week we are com pelled to defer the publication of the balance of the above interesting papcr? until next week. Ed. The Allowing named persons were elected as officers of the Al umni Association of Corvallis Col- lege for the ensuing syeart PresC &;Ji P(iQsrrin ; Vice Presi. dent, Miss Rosa Jacobs; Secretary, Thayer. fllessrs. Fountain and Finley-wfcreeleeted to deliterW tions, and Miss Rosa Jacobs to read "yi ,i Judge Hnmftson, of the Dalles, is quite ill. Wool sells at 2025 cents per pound ac the Da les. The interest on the irreducible sp!xl fiiii' fbr I .mo eoitrtty am oui.tt. to i 2,640 5t). Last Friday, Mr. Morrion, who lives a few nn!;'s below Corvallis, was kicked by a horse and seriously hjif it-il, I Ml week Judge Tidiiiau's little girl, who has liron very ill for some time past, had a leg amputated. J. M. AHen, of Ochoco, will have a grist mill in running order this Fa 1 at Prineviltc Uncle !'ob Kinney, of Salem, has sold liis ra ch on V'illoW creek, Umatilla county, for $8,000. Jos. llolman has resignpfl his position on the Capltnl building and J. W. v'cutt has been aipi;inted in his place. A Spaniard was arretted at Salem on Monday, on a telegraphic warrant from the Sheriff of Lane county. What his j-in is, is un known. A Nevada man is putting con- sioYrau'e money into circulation in Union in payment fbr large droves of cattle and hogs which he is buy ing. The lawyers who sued the Whit ley estate of Polk county, for 1,000 tees fbr services rendered in the Whitley-tilazo trial got a verdict for 600 each. The Christian Church have been holding a protracted meeting at Bethel, and up to ilie middle of last week had received fifteen accessions to the church. Daniel Clark, Grand Master of the Patrons of Husbandly, desires all good Patrons of Polk county to meet him at Dallas July 3d, to at tend to important business. The Pendleton Tribune thinks the aboriginal denizens are really much happier and enjoy life to a greater extent than the more culti vated and refined sons of Shem. A Salem man says somebody fired two shots at him the other evening, when he was driving up his cows. E. S. McComas has been ap pointed by the Pioneer and Histor ical Society of Oregon and Wash ington Territory as agent m Eas tern Oregon for the collection of money to assist iu 'building a mon ument to the memory of Dr. Mar cus Whitman who was murdered in 1847. The Record Notwithstand ing various reports to the contrary, the work on the Capitol building has not been sus 'ended a single day since election, wheu the weather permitted working, with the excep tion of o e week, when it was ab solutely necessary to 6'.op for want of material. W. P. Crowe, Esq., an elderly gentleman residing in Weston, pre cinct, intending to take a swallow of wine for medicinal purposes, got hold of the wrong bottle and took a mouthful of a solution of some thing very caustic by mistake; aud it was considered very doubtful, when we last beard from him, whether he would surivie the in juries he has sustained. Chris. Weiss has secured the con tract for carrying the mail from Jacksonville to Sam's Valley, via Central I 'pint,' Table Rock, Browns borongh and Kagle Feint, for $640 per annum: u A private letter from the Cove, Grand Ronde valley, contains this : "Our spring and summer here are unlike any our oldest inhabitants can bring to memory veritable Webfoot exuberance of rain, so far has entirely dispensed with the ne cessity for irrigation, and it pros pects form any basis for augury, we will astonish the natives wheu we make our crop report this fall." In the Sunday Appropriation bill, as passed the House, we find the following items for Washington Territory: huryey of public lauds, 40,000 ; for cisterns and repairs at Smith's Light Station, 81.5,000 . for general repairs at Admiral Head-Light Station, 3,500. Says the TJVW."An out and out Democrat, not remote from Ida ho Ciiy, on hearing the remark that LaDow had 'made a very poor run,' replied : "Xo wonder he has made a poor run, everybody has this spring, the season has been so inter nally dry' Nc thought LaDow had been mining." Says the Bozeman Courier, of June 5th: "The migration of the grasshopper westward has already set in. Sunday ti e air was full of them, seeking pastures fresh and new. They seemed to have eome across the range from the Yellow stone Valley, which accounts lor their eaCy maturity, that Valley lieiug celebrated for heing ahead of all others in the matter of early vegetation, on which these early emigrants have been nurtured, and attained a flying capacity in advance of those tlT settled in the Jalletin Let' em fly." A term of court was held at Col v Hie week lietbre last. There was oije chancery case, two divorce cases, four civil cases in which judg ments were taken by default, and two iu seven criminal cases, for living in open adultery cases m which white men are living with squaws without being married to ' them. In two of these trials were had ; in the one a verdict of not guilty was brought in, and in the other the jury could not agree and were discharged, and the defendant held for trial at the next term of court. . The other five were con tinued and the court intimated that if juries womd not convict me-v for that offense in Steaphens county, he would have the trials come offin Walla Walla. There was also a case of seduction under promise of marriago. The U. 8, Land Officers at La Grande have not received as yet any notification of the vacation of Wallowa Indian Reservation. The Sentinel says : "It is not advisable for men to settle there until such notification is received for in theso days there is nothing sure but that which is certain. Senator Kelly received! a promise of its vacation, but it is not yet vacated." The Walla Walla Rtatemnan thinks il is "cheeky" in the Sound' papers to claim that the Delegate to Congress from Washington Ter ritory this year should lie a "clam eater" and says "a man from tin grasshopper country would till the bill just as well " Five thousand 1 gs belonging to' the railroad company have arrived at the mouth of the Yakima; They were brought from the nppe Yak-' iraa, and the drivers made the trip iu twenty-eight days. The wheat stored ii the Wal lula warehouses basalt beeubwuglA away.