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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1874)
ptig frffeto. (P. 8. omoUl Pap" tor Oregon. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1874. RAM FBAIWIKCO LETTER. San Francisco, ) August 8th, 1874. f Gold in New York 109. Le gal tenders 90 J 91. No change in the Liverpool wheat quotations since our last. The Illinois Democracy have called a State Convention, to meet in Springfield, August 25tb. It turns out that the little boy loand in the charge ot ft woman at Bennington, Vt, if not, as was first bojieved, Charley Row. B. F. Brown, alter a trial at Sclera, lasting through two days, naa been acquitted of the charge of robbing Wells, Fargo & Uo.'s sale. The usual Nevada stage robbery occurred near Mineral Hill, on the 10th. Wells, Fargo & Cc's treasur box was taken, but the passengers were not molested. Auastrologistot Utah lias proph esied that Brigliam Young will pass in his checks on the 7th hour of the 7th day of December, of ap oplexy. - sj The first section of the Seattle & Walla Walla railroad is about finished, and the iron for the first four miles is being shipped from San Francisco. The grasshoppers have eaten nearlv everything in northern and tooth-western Kansas, and in Ne braska they have totally destroyed the corn crop. An exciting game of base hal was nlaved by the Athletics and Red Stockings at Crystal Palace, London, on the 10th iust., the lat ter winning by a score of 17 to 8. . , . . The Beecher-Tilton scandal still hardens the columns of the press. In fact the larger portion of the Eastern telegrams come burdened with "new developments" in the scandal. Information has been received at Fort Laramie that the Cheyemies and Apaches are preparing for war, and that many Sioux will joir tViom 'V.-'. i-i':4 t l.li.'l !!-? ajapsjipsjai John Barker, while blackberry. ine near Oakland, encountered a grizzly. He gave him a charge of small shot in the rear, when his bearship got up and dusted. A little eight year old son of Judge Pasie. of Portland, was drowned at Astoria on Tuesday. The father and mother are almost wild with grief at the loss of an idolized son. Albany Register: San Fran cisco is quite a lively city. Having recovered fr m the depressing ef fects following the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad, as also from her alarming shocks of earthquakes, she is now enjoying a season of prosperity, and is no doubt destined to be a great com mercial city evidently theU got the sand, and it her citizens have not the grit equal to any emergen cy, it is not because nature has not been sufficiently lavish of that im portant article, for it comes down fresh from the hills like drifting snow on every passing gale. The weather here is never very hot During the month of July the temperature was seldom above 72. The mornings were almost invariably foggy, but not those low. hung vapory fogs, such as we some times have in Oregon, but more like our cloudy weather ir Sum mer. These usually pass away with the forenoon; then they have wind, sand and sunshine the remainder of the day, tollowel by cool nights. California abounds in vegetables and fruits of all kinds, of good oualitv and cheap. White the grain crop is reported good through out almost the entire State, tlie -ar rivals from the interior are as yet very limited in amounts. There are quite a number of vessels in the harbor under charter to carry wheat, awaiting cargos. Toe wharves are lined with hay, but never a bale of timothy do you see. It is all made from wheat or oats, wild and tame, often a mix tare of all, cut green and bated. The voteuteer crops and grain which, from any cause, fails to ma ture, are made into hay. Hones fed on it here appear healthy and strong. I think our farmers would do well to utilize more of their white flat land in raising this kind of feed, saving the good land for gram, f 1 1 Oregon produce does not bear an enviable reputation here. Butter, perhaps not very good when made, does not improve any in coming here. Egg are often kept too long, or are;hipped .m ft careless man- ner, alid do notftrrive in good con- Portland steamer, hut he did not come, for some unknown cause. To our friends in Albany, or wherever this may go, greet them with a our best wislies. J. P.T. Moiilton ha made h statement in the Tilton-lieeclief scandal, hwf it has nut hecii published mi proiihly will 'not to. On the h4 of tlu aniinnncPfflcnt conf1" the re- IMtelXKSS - CAR? MRDIC'AS. W4WOTB1 Col. W. W. Chapman is out, in Wednesday's Oregoman, with a long address to the people of Ore gon in behalf oi the important project of the construction of the Portland, Dalles & Salt Lake liailroad. It will be remembered that during the last session of Con gress Col. Chapman was in Wash ington, laboring with might and main, to bi inw his biil to a vote. lioth our Sectors and onr Con gressman testify to the earnest seal with which he labored for the suc cess of i he enterprire. His appeal for aid and sympathy will doubt less meet with an earnest response from the people. Let the people of Oregon show that they are in earnest in this matter; that the improvement is one demanded by the country, a most important out let, without which a very large extent of rich and productive country is cut off from communica tion with the rest of mankind. Let the question be but properly agita. ted between now ami the assem bling of the next Congress, and there is no reasonable doubt but that the bill granting aid to the road will become a law. I'llll Ill's lI'C tyir- furl) Aiiia out lie jitt'Kmt it Solrt 3m It rU'RKP AS4, VSTKRX.U. AM) KXTEK- ... .... . .... , . , V mil Ache W. "im port that tnere win proramy ue a ra,w(. fevn,.ai'-tiicu compromise in whirl) all the parties ,(J. DrojI rlinvrhr inf mxlm sn to hp "-nils- ! tied'.. Mt. Tdrnnitoafe,Hwle-lge - ... , . . jto-sw Mill that she has been laboring winter 9 , i PHYSICIANS AMB SWROIONS, "hallucination;' Ueeehen re-. r" JttJtl I,. r...v..tu Ltiih th. ....r-i A LB AN y, 0HWW. niku inn pnntviiiK' t- standing that the s.cielv mY refuse to awii-pt it, and Ti'ton is to mvepl ! the concession m full satisfaction for all damages to family and self, and will receive back to his aching bosom Mrs. Iiltoii. Another ru mor is that 1'iltoii will be willing to entertain n proiiwiiiim ut thk kind when 'paring-stow begin to blossom into rose. We await with patience !urttn;rdeveliHrtet4 from the tnnt. On the 8th inst., in f prague river valley, William I'rown ht and killed Oliver Hnrt. Hurt is the man who killed (ieorge Hrown, brother of William, last spring, and was acquitted on the ground of self-defense ; tTv4 J. w. BALBWilyii AMoMM-jr unrt Towistlor ni tnw, Iricts. In ike Smnriiiif IVmrt of i.von, rirst mnwt, Aibmvy, Surgeon 4k Phyolefaui. mCK -! utiwf, lwtwetn JVrnr UsmlWWnalw.- ''" J' stiwt,twollmrksbetwrri rf Mi'tli" illst Chnn-I. AUnui, Onwmi- v5nw if. f. KlWMA. I" M.! POWKLI. it FlilMlf , M SOLICITOUS 1 OI1ASCKRV lL. A rilnnnolMtfmUta.Altwny.-.'""-(hnrtlomand wtveync8 pt"u,i'')' teniltillo. T. W. HAHUK, Pliystcfans and Snrgcons, ALBAST, dition. And even wheat, the com- The.Democrat8 of tlie sixth dis trict, Ohio, nominated Hon. Frank H. Ilurd tor Congress, on the lltb In the ninth district, the People's Convention nominated Archibald Johnson, an old line Democrat. On the 10th, at Bennington, Vt., a woman was arrested having in charge a child answering the deV scription of Charley Ross, the little bov that was kidnapped iu Phila- ar nf3 , -i' delphia recently, and for whom the kidnappers have demanded of the father a large reward. Questions asked him, dictated from Philadel ulna, were answered correctly, and it is believed that the lost Charley is found,- ' modity which Oregon justly boasts, is sometimes not properly cleaned, or is put up in old sacks which burst with handling. These things caose our goods to be evil spoken of, greatly to our injury pecuniarily. Mr. Barrows and family are domi ciled in the city. John is fat learning the ways of the city, pre paratory td business, which be, in company with Mr. I H. Wake field, expects to open in a few days, when they will be ready to tarnish the citizens liere with material for combus"tidn in the shape ot stoue- coal, in any quantity desired. Dr. E. 0. Smith left here yester- day morning on his way East, flushed with hope, his pockets full of patent rights, and fortune and fame slightly in advance awaiting him. His enterprize raugurs well. Rev. D. K. Nesbit, late ot Cor- vallis, is spending a few days in the city, when he will resume his jour ney Eastward. Mrs. Wm. E. Howell is ftt the ) Russ House in this city, and is almost worn down with watching eiitected Mr. Howell here by last' Hernando C. Stewart, Coroner of Umatilla county, with a pleasure party at Hot Springs iu the Blue Mountains, one day last week went with another jwrty hunting. The two men separated and Stewart got lost, wandered around all day and until some time in the night, when he fell over a precipice some 350 feet. Seaich being made the next davi Jie was found at the foot of the precipice, literally crushed to a jelly. 1 1 is ground-up remains were taken to Pendleton, the coun ty seat, and buried. Tlie Walla Walla Union has this in relation to an attempt at wholesale poisoning recently near that oity: About a week aero a man named Qniuner, who lives at the forks of the Walla Walla river, came to luwn bringing his wife and' two children with him, leaving , his house shut up, but not soltighj; but that it could be easily entered. They returned the 'same' -evening, having taken supier witlf a neigh bor. 'I he next morning slrtly nfter breakfast. Mr. Qillliue was suddenly taken wall trenfWiug ami convulsions, his wife and :two chil dren were also taken in ;the same manner, and "there were all tV symptoms of poisoning by strych nine Tbenwh de family immedi ately lgaf to eat " grease, milk, mustard and everything that they cmilrt think of as -antidotes, and were soon cured. A little neigh I xir boy who Tiad eaten breakfast u-it. them was also taken Kfl ft nimilar wav on his mad home, but he was also saved. In order to try the quality of the bread t hey had ' eaten, some of it was given to a cat, and to the chickens, and all that partook of it so n died. There seerii bnt little doubt thai some one had put poison in the flour. No accusation has been made as yet against any one, but as Mr. (luiuer has been in trouble about some laud which is in dispute, he naturally feels inclined to throw tlie blame in a certain direction." The M. E. Conference opened at Portland, on the 12th, Bishop Mer rill presiding. MiAaVx? JE&Hou T doing E E. McKinney fc Co., of Turners' Station, Marion county, are building a first-class warehouse and granary, 84x60 feet on the around, and 30 feet high. Tt is j being built in the most substantial manner, with solid stone walls on a stone foundation. It is fitted np with elevators and cleaning ma chinery, run by horse power, and is calculated to store in the best of shape 70,000 bushels ot grain. The estimated cost of this building is RO0O. Professor Harden is now en- gaged, with some ot his assistants, in making special geological exami nations along the foothill, and in the red sandstone formations in the vicinity of Manitou and the Garden ot Gods, for the purpose of de termining more definitely the true characi-er and age of tlioie forma tions, about which there has hereto fore been more r less doubt. The formations in that (ucajte are quite uncertain ns to age, a there are few or iso fossils at all by which their antiquity may be determined Three Ikivs, "tramps," bound for Denver, appeared at Wallace station, Fridav, and were fed , .and lodged by AJ.s j&iidujr.beitrnder at that point. After being hospitably treated, free of charge, they stole a ciMi pie W navy iwolvw ailfl "pulled out" down the road. They were overhauled and returned to Wallace, taken to a bam, tied, and each , one made to whip tlie other with a stout mule whip. Then they were released, and told to "go west" and grow np with the mountains. UitftsjQlarfc, of ljeoyfT,gerietsIly and popularly known as "Potato Clark," has loO acres of potatoes, which look well and will produce 25,000 to 30,000 bushels, if the season is favorable. Mr. Clark has exjiended over fc&OQO in preventing tlie ravages of the jKitato bug this year. Alex. Mason, of Brooks, Marion county, on the 7th inst., headed in in live houistiine with a ten-toot header, 16 acres of, wheat. Trot out your teams' and beat it ye who (Kill. .J'. )U4. Hon. J. F. Simmons is in the Ste16Mng ibr homes tor Mis sissippians. H conjfis Well reoom- I mended. OFF E VIVEK A. I AHifflllKKS t'o -iX.l ZJVSiir Hrris- oro1h-t.,"nr i)loeKwiii ure. ............ -;- . , of Dr. BmWbtonMiiiM Dr. Ta tr. Tliiiil street. Albany Book Store. JXO. FOK11AY, BKALBK IS amCXMXlt'BOOKS, tfebnotnnalciNBtank BoohisSttiilimery l"2S's toporieil ti(rter.t lmrtst ibleiioth'. DR. BO. W. GBAY, DENTIST, AMI ANY. VHBWn- Of riCS. IS PABB1SH KBItH KUK'K, comer Mretsn.1 I'errj' wrerij. Rsl ilenoe -forner Tifth il rrr- ns . Offlce hours fromStoKo'clotk u. m..wl 1 to S o'clock p. m. SF EPIZOOTICS 0ISTAXEI. TIIK HAT TEAjTnTIM. MTMI. Sl 18 rLOURWlUSG t''KE A WP A Imy tree. Tliunkinl tor jwst fiivori', itmlwiihliiKtoiwrit the con! iuimm-e nl ih ,ne,tl.i' BAY TEAM w.ll MW nmtlv.-anil ewfiy foiiml, to do n Iwoniiu WlThlu .he city limits, for a rraMrtmWe msuerialty. A. N. ARMil.n. WHY 8Y THIS f'AMKWtl AXI tiouWi!x'Uie coiiiiilalKt cHiniot l wtMin man v evMonw ! TOeWH Iu. Uwl lu.lrillt Vtf.ll eVCVY UtlY S of snnnosed tionelew e(rtrt (m nhrtldM informs you that tlwslqnKf ')W allow the complaint to exW, yon lessen youv clmnccs for relict AVjini. iff n" mtiihlthktn ml? oh.' . 4 iirolkerH .' File FHIa m Olutnunt - v all t nev w iDconiiiic iirtcil to ney "in cure Cluni'ite, IVuIuikI UHwiltWt "" HVen tdinri HM awl nto S ' ." """ Tlit nrepa'mi ton tsnent hy man or i's pi to any i ml" t wlihwthe V n ol Bl $1 .incrpii' K;c. . .... Mfm, A. CAKOTUKK8 CO 2Tv.- ivm at, Alhany. Onww. 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