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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1874)
PUBLISHED XVTBY rItAY BY COLL. VAJST C LE "V" E . AliBANY, - - - OREGON. THE MOSS-GATHEREU OF MON TEREY. Twenty yoars ago Monterey, that quaint, dreamy town of the past, which has never caught the feverish inspira tion of the present, was little different from the Monterey of to-day. The wars of the outside world, the king-makings, and revolutions, and discoveries, and inventions, hat no power to send a single thrill of interest or excitement through the veins of her somnolent Spanish population. So long as the rose:; bloomed, and the winter rains made the hills green for the immense herds of cattle which then tenanted the Salinas plains so long did the people of Monterey, proud of their long stretch of sen-beach, their roses, and the dark beauty of their daughters, take the pleasant afternoon siesta, and dance to the music of the guitar at car nival time. Twenty years ago, as to day, the cattle roamed through the quiet streets, and the same loving hands that planted feeble rose-cuttings, now, with less of the dimpled melding of yore, cull with the same delicate ease the buds from the mature trees. On a glorious May dawn in 185-, as the sun crept over the pines that senti nel the hills in the rear of the town, a girl stood on the beach watching the receding tide. As the sunlight silvered the long reach of sands and glistened on the wet rocks, it touched with loving splendor a face of singular beauty, with features as clear cut as a cameo. Ju anilla was the daughter of an old whaler who lor many years had followed levia than in the lagoons af Southern Califor nia, but an accident caused by the stav-ing-in of a boat made him a cripple, and, except his little adobe homestead and the labor of Juanilla, he had nothing in his old age to depend on. She was a moss-gatherer, who made pretty pic ture frames of shells and sea-weed, and sold them to the crews of naval and merchant vessels. An early riser was Juanilla. The dawn saw her on the beach when the tide suited her occupa tion, and the porch of the adobe oottage was a wilderness of crim son, white and yellow roses. Her beauty was not of the sleepy, indolent sort, so characteristic of the Spanish woman. It had more of the animated grace and lithe, supple vigor of the fisherman's daughters of the British islands. " Madrc dc Dios .'" said she, softly, as she sprang from the top of a treach erous granite rock to the sands, " how those strangers are carrying off my shells ! This beach is being ruined by those people. I shall soon be without material for a single picture-frame." Now, Juanilla's labors, though Mon terey was still slumbering, were not un observed. A young man stood on the bluff above the beach, looking down in the intensest admiration on the bare footed beauty below. He wore the loose gray clothes of a tourist, and, from the sea-glasses that hung by his side, was evidently out early to observe the sunrise. Clambering doTn the rocks with a sure-footed ease that indi cated the experienced mouutaineer, the stranger drew near her, and watched, with an amused expression on his hand some Saxon features, J uaniila's contest with an envious wavelet for the posses sion of a rare bit of moss. " Bravo V he cried, as, returning from a success ful rush into the spray, she carried off her prize. The moss-gatherer turned quickly and blushed in the most charming man ner imaginable as she hastily arranged the short petticoat which clung limp and lovingly to her pretty ankles. The stranger took off his hat and apologized foi his presence. "Ah, senor," said the moss-gatherer, "are you, too, looking for shells on my beach ? Well, yon shall have some, as yon are out so early. Come and I will show you where the tide has thrown them up." And, quite recovered from her first embarrassment, she beckoned him to follow her over the rocks. John Thorpe, fresh from the, London drawing-rooms, and in search of a health broken down bv the dissipations of a London life, mentally decided that this was the most delightful adventure he had met with since he shook the dust of Bond street from his feet. He followed her, and when, after an hour's scramble with this daughter of the coast, he re turned, wet and weary, to the hotel, he made an entry in his diary that his morning's lesson in conchology was more interesting than any he had ever heard from the hps of his Oxford pro fessor. And Juanilla averred to her self it was a pity mat tms young .Englishman, who said such odd things in such a nice way, should have such pale cheeks, and get so tired from the exercise that only refreshed her for the labors of the day. That afternoon, as her deft fingers wove the mosses into tasteful patterns, her father's voice sum moned her to the veranda. "There is a stranger here, Juanilla, who would like to see our picture frames. Quick, my daughter, and show the gentleman what we have for said, Mr. John Thorpe bought almost the entire stock, and then asked permission to visit the garden. " This is my pet," said Juanilla, gen tly lifting up the blossom of a tiny moss rose bush, " but it is very sickly, senor, and I fear this will be its last winter. Come, you shall have a bud, as you bought my picture-frames. Poor thing ! the northerly winds will kill it." The sands had after this morning, a grand attraction for Thorpe. He had never met a nature so fresh and brim ming with vitality as this poor whaler's daughter. The sea, and the woods, and the flowers had been her instructors, nA from them she had caught an un tutored poetry which found vent in odd ideas and sympathies. A shell was to her a beauty ; a fragment of moss, a messenger from the deep sea forests, where unknown sea-flowers bloom and die forever remote from human eyes. He was astonished at himself. Women bored him, had always bored him ; but here was this water-nymph, who had never read a book in her life for the alphabet was to her an unexplored mys tery who could not discourse of poli tics, the poets, or the magazines, work ing her way into his indolent nature, ana quickening him to exchange thought for thought, until he felt the poverty of his book-culture as compared with an intelligence framed and polished by Mother Nature herself. Her mind was white page, free from the very shadow of worldly grossnees. One evening as Thorpe sat on the porch, listening to the whaler's recitals of his exciting lagoon adventures and watching Juanilla's weaving fingers, a Spaniard lifted the garden-gate latch and was greeted warmly by the whaler. " We have heard from Pancho," said the new-comer. " Ho has done well in the lower bays, and as soon as he can vill ship us over 500 barrels." " Good !" said the whaler ; " 500 bar rels ! Think of that Juanilla. That will buy you a fine wedding-gown, my daughter." Thorpe started, stung by a thought whieh for the moment sent the blood in a cold current to his heart, and glanced at Juanilla with a great fear in his eyes, which, in spite of his efforts, he could not conceal. She simply answered : "I am glad that Pancho has been lucky. Poor fel low ! he has been a 1 upc time away." Thorpe arose, and, bidding them on abrupt good evening, walked rapidly toward the sands. " My God !" ho said aloud, " What have I been doing '? Am I dreaming ? This is terrible terrible. It can't be possible that I love this daughter of a wretched pauper fisher man ; but by heaven !" and lie Btruck his forehead with his clenched hand "this is jealousy, so sure as there is such a passion : and if the intense con centration of all feeling, an absorption of one's self into another, be love, then I, silly fool that I am, love this pauper cur.:e me !" For mi hour he paced up and down the cliff, overlooking the sands where he had first met his siren, and reflected bitterly on all the folly of his unfortunate attachment. Marry her he could not. Nay, even if he decided to marry her, he did not believe she loved him, and he knew, or thought he knew enough of her character to feel assured that his wealth and position would not influence her one jot. But who was this Pancho ? no doubt her bethrothed, yet she had never mentioned his name. Still, her idiotic old father spoke of a wedden-gown. Yes, Pancho may the devil drown him ! had gone whalinsrto defray the marriage expenses. But what did all this concern him this episode in the life of a poor fisherni?.n's daughter He felt it concerned him too much ; and, full of anger, love, and perplexity, Thorpe sought his lodging. Long before dawn the next morning he was on the sands, awaiting impa tiently the arrival of Juanilla. And when "at last she stood on the cliff from which he had seen her first, the quick heart-beat and the joy that flushed him were additional alarming convictions of the intensity of his passion. He could not, for the life of him, mention the in cident of the previous evening until they had walked some distance along the beach. Juanilla stood barefooted at the edge of the tide, now turning round with a merry laggh when the incoming wave splashed up to her knees, and again shouting with delight when a more than usually rare moss was thrown up. Thorpe sat on a rock,and watched her moodily. "Juanilla, come here for a moment." " O, senor, here is a beauty, the pret tiest bit I have caught in a week. But why do you look so grave this morn ing ?" and she took a seat beside him. Thorpe took her hand in his own, and looked down into her brown eyes. The clasp of those tiny fingers thrilled him. She seemed to recognize the passion in his gaze, for she turned to the bay where the fisherman's skiffs were lying at anchor. "Juanilla, when is your wedding- gown to be ready ?" one turned to him a white, startled lace, trembled, and the great tears dimmed her eyes, but she was silent. And then all Thorpe's self-possession forsook him. He took her in his arms and pressed her to his heart. He called heaven and earth to witness that, were she a queen, he could not be prouder of her ; they should be married at once by the padre, and sail with her father in the next vessel for his English home. Did she love him ? Juanilla leaned her head over his hand and kissed it. " Senor," she said, simply, "I love you; but we were betrothed from our cradle. It was his mother's dying wish that we should be married, and my father swore it. An oath cannot be broken. Good-bye, and the white saints bless you ! O my love my love good-bye. She tore her self from his arms, bounded up the rocks, and was out of sight in a mo ment. Thorpe walked up and down the sands, and raved like a madman. He wept and moaned, and kissed over and over again the hand her lips had caressed. And then the storm was suc ceeded by an intense sorrow. He walked to the woods, and laid until evening under the pines. In a week, Pancho 's ship came in. It was Juanilla's wedding morning. The poor moss-gatherer was fearfully changed. Kind neighbors said that anxiety for her betrothed had stolen the roses from her cheeks ; but the stalwart young whaler was shocked at the cold ness with which his promised bride re ceived his caresses. The wedding pro cession moved to the church. Pancho gay and happy, and Juanilla's face as pale as the white wedding-gown she wore. The vows were exchanged, and the gray -headed priest blessed the mar ried pair. And then they returned to the whaler's cottage, the guitars were touched, and Pancho led out his lovely bride in a Spanish dance. They had scarcely taken a step, when a cry from the beach brought everybody to the porch. A boy was seen standing on the Diun, shouting wildly : " Down to the boats ! the English man is drowning ! To the boats, or he will be lost r Before the wedding throng fully com prehended the alarm, a white figure burst from their midst. Like the wind she dashed down to the bluff, then over the rocks, now lashed by the angry waves, for the tide was high and a strong northwester blowing. At her feet alive, yet not struggling at all with the breakers lay Thorpe, his face full of the agony of death. Juanilla sprung from the rock with a wild shriek, and her arms encircled the drowning man. And then, before even her hus band could reach the cliff, a mighty wave came and drew them both far out into its depths. An hour afterward, the sea gave up its dead. The' arms of the bride still encircled her lover, and one of his was clasped in the rigidity of death about her neck, and upon his face was a smile as of one content. They were buried, side by side, in the sea-washed graveyard, under the shadow of oaks in whose branches the doves at autumn-time cooed through the long gloamings, as if in sympathy with then old, old story. And tides ebbed and flowed, and the seasons changed, and lovers laid flower offerings on the graves of the two so lovely to each other in life, and in death so undivided. Over land Monthly. Cleaning Kettles. We throw a shovel-full of wood ashes into the pan, pot or kettle, which has been burned, fill with water, let it boil while the dishes are being washed ; then all we have to do is to wash it out with a coarse cloth. A great saving of time, finger nails, spoons and temper. "Daisy Eyebright," The Greatest Thief on Record. An ar: est. of more than usual im portance was made yesterday afternoon by Detective Tyrrell. Complaints have been quite numerously lodged at de tective headquarters of late from a num ber of newspaper publishing firms, who have suddenly discovered that their entire subscription lists were missing. The inexplicable disappearance of their subscription books has involved several of the publishing companies in serious loss, and has occasioned much delay in forwarding the paper mails. New lists had to be made out from data in the office, which was not at all times com plete, and this species of peculation has thrown a branch of the newspaper business in several offices into inex tricable confusion, and sorely tested the patience of many thousands of sub scribers who have waited in vain for the coming of their weekly mental pabu lum. Nearly a week ago the case was placed in the hands of Detective Tyrrell, and yesterday afternoon C. H. Bruton was landed in the Central Station lock-up, where he is now pondering on the un certain fortunes that are likely to be fall the man who steals subscription lists. It is evident from a large amount of Bruton's correspondence which was aptured that he has found the business a profitable one. The lists which he has succeeded in stealing embrace the names of many thousands of bona fide residents, scattered all over the West ern States. His practice has been to make as many duplicates of the lists as there were demands for them. He has found his customers for the most part in New York city, among the venders in quack medicines, counterfeit money, and the propagators of every variety of swindling dodges. The lists are, of conrse, invaluable to this class of per sons, who are thus enabled to spread their swindling circulars among the un sophisticated country people, whose ad dresses they can obtain so easily in no other way. Bruton's lists, therefore, have been in great demand, and he has driven a thriving trade supplying duplicates to all parties applying, at the rate of S100 to S200 per list, according to the num ber of names it contained.. Chicao Times. A Stratagem on the Scaffold. A Paris correspondent relates the fol lowing story about the great-grandmother of the Polish Prince Lubomirs ki, " who writes so cleverly and chatters so incessantly:" " This unfortunate Princess remained in Paris during the Reign of Terror, imagining that her foreign nationality would save her from the guillotine. The unhappy lady, who was very beautiful, made a mistake. She had been the intimate friend of Princess Lamballe, and was arrested on a groundless suspicion of being in cor respondence with the Austrian govern ment, and hurried off to execution on the day following that which saw Madame Roland perish. Princess Lu bomirska had one little daughter which she wished to embrace before she died. A faithful nurse brought the child in her arms, and, at the risk of her own life, to the very foot of the scaffold. The wretched mother, wishing thai her Uttle one should be recognized in after years by the Lubomirski family, and not being allowed to write to them, im agined the following means of identify inK her orphan daughter. Stooping down she dipped her linger in the blood of a victim who had jttBt perished and wrote these words in tug letters on a scrap of her linen, The child with the letters JU. H. scratched on its arm is my daughter. Princess Lubomirski.' Then taking a pin she scratched the initials on the arm of her child, embraced it, and a few moments afterwards laid her head under the knife. The nurse, when the Reign of Terror was over, took the child to Poland, where, being recog nized by her mother's family, in the course of vears she married her cousin, Prince Ladislas Lubomirski. The present Prince has often seen the initial scar on his grandmother s arm. me old lady died only a few years ago." Wood-Sawing by a White-Iiot Wire, The Abbe Moigno, in a recent num ber of his periodical, entitled Les Mondes, describes an invention, which, he says, has recently been patented by Mr. Robinson, of New York, for sawing wood by an entirely new, and which seems a sufficiently odd, process. Since it originated here it ought to be no new novelty to our readers ; but since it is such to us we give it the benefit of this notice. The process consists in substi tuting instead of the saw a platinum wire, heated white-hot by means of an electric current. The wire receives the same reciprocating motion which is commonly given to the saw, and thus burns its way through the wood. It is practicable, according to the inventor, not only to cut logs, planks or heavier forms of lumber by this means, but also to give curvature to the cut, and to pro duce fantastic forms of every descrip tion, since the saw, being without breadth, adapts itself to such purposes better even than the band or ribbon saws. Inasmuch as the wire burns its way instead of cutting, it leaves the surface of the wood charred ; but this is an effect entirely superficial, and oc casions no injury to the material. It would seem as if, however, there was an important question of economy here to be settled, and we shall wait before pronouncing an opinion on this applica tion of science until we hear from it further. A Doubtful Point. A Western paper is responsible for the details of a chapter of accidents which had its origin in the most com monplace occurrence. A dog rounding the corner from an alley, and closely fol lowed by a brick, came in con tact with the feet of an old women wb.o was car rying a jug of molasses in one hand and a basket of eggs in the other. The old lady sat violently down into the basket of eggs, and smashed the jug of molas ses on the pavement, bringing down upon herself by the cleverely executed maneuver the full weight of a young gentleman who was running to catch his train. Continuing his flight, the dog ran against the legs of a team of horses attached to a load of potatoes. The horses becommcr frurhtened. bolted. and, the tail-board of the wagon falling out, they unloaded the potatoes alone the streets as they went. Crossing the railroad track, the wagon displaced one ui me raiis; a ireight train, coming along directly afterward, was thrown from the track, smashing some of the cars and kilhntr thirtv or fortv hnus. Contmuintz their course, the ho rHfta. cm reaching their own homestead at tip top speed, cairfe to grief. Ono of them broke his leg, while the othsr was crip plea lor life. It is now a r.aooted ques tion whether the man who threw the bncJt at the dog or the owner of the lat ter is responsible for the damage. A labge bald eagle tried to carry off a u-iie giri in r..ne county, JN. X., re cently, bus wns frightened off. Nana Sahib. The following is a sketch of the per son and life of Nana Sahib, Who has re cently fallen into the hands of the British: Nana Sahib, the title of Dhundoo Tunt, a Hindoo chieftain and a leader of the Sepoy mutiny in 1857, was born in 1824. He was the son of a Brahmin of the Deccan, and when a little more than a year old he was taken to Bittoor, where Bajee Row, the Peishwa or chief of the Mahrattas, adopted him in 1827. On the death of Bajee without heir of his body in 1851, an estate in the neigh borhood which had been bestowed upon him during pleasure by the British was declared lapsed to the East India Company, as they had previously refused to recognize inheritance of lands by adoption, and a pensicn of $450,000 a year granted to him and his family in 1818 was also stopped. Nana Sahib sent an agent to England to advocate his claims, but without success, and this supposed wrong he never forgave. He lived, however, in apparent friend ship with the English, imitating their customs as far as he could, and was per mitted to occupy the town of Bittoor, where he possessed great wealth and mucft influence. When the Sepoy mutiny broke out in 1857, ho was fully trusted by the English, who applied to him for a body of soldiers to guard the treasury at Cawnpor9, which he imme diately granted ; but no sooner had the insurrection occurred at the latter place than he put himself at the head of the rebels and killed all the Europeans that fell into his hands, among whom were two large parties, principally women and children, who were endeavoring to escape down the Ganges from Futteh- gurh. The rjugush at (Jawnpore in the meantime defended themselves until June 27, when they surrendered on the In ana promising to send them safe to Allahabad. They were permitted to embark, but immediately afterward were fired upon and many were killed and the rest brought back to land. The men were put to death at once ; the women and children, after suffering horrible outrages, were massacred July 15, the day before Havelock arrived at Cawnpore, and their bodies thrown into a well. The Nana retreated to Bittoor, where Havelock defeated him on the 17th, driving him out of the town and destroying his army. He soon got to gether another army, with which he fol lowed Havelock into Oude, but after ward returned toward Cawnpore with the intention of attacking Gen. Neill, who was in garrison there with a small force. Reoccupying Bittoor, he was driven back in confusion by Gen. Neill Aug. 15 ; and on the next day Havelock, who had returned from Oude, defeated his whole force in a sharp engagement Owing to the exhaustion of the victors and their want of cavalry, the Nana es caped, and, without coming directly in contact with the British, except once more at Cawnpore, where Sir Colin Campbell defeated him Dec. G, con tinued an active and harassing warfare. On the occupation of Gwalior by the rebels in June, 1858, he was chosen Peishwa of the Mahrattas, and his nephew, Row Sahib, was placed in com mand of the city. Mis subsequent ca reer is difficult to be traced, for his en ergies were bent rather upon escaping pursuit than conducting offensive opera tions. Long after the other leaders had submitted or been captured, he continued, with the Begum of Oude and about ten thousand rebels, to infest the northern parts of Central India and the frontiers of Napaul. A report that he had died of fever in the latter part of looo was generally discredited, and un til now it had been uncertain whether he was alive or not. His arrest at this time will doubtless be a pleasant sur prise to the British government, who will, no doubt, give him the punishment he fully deserves. How Little It Costs to Take an Ocean Voyage. A remarkable instance of the extent to which competition may be carried may be found in the the wonderfully reduced rates of trans atlantic passage at the present time. steerage passage to Europe may be obtained at as low as $10, while the average prices are from $12 to $125. During the past summer many Irish and English emigrants have gone back to weir native tana io visit irienus auu relatives, and they are now beginning to return 700 having arrived at Castle Garden one day last month. The cheap ness of the fare renders the hairopean trip really little more than a pleasure excursion, ihe lood consists oi ooiied beef and pork, salt fish, hot bread, crackers, rice and barley soup, pota toes, hard ship's biscuit, porridge, mo lasses, and a poor grade of coffee. The passengers have to provida their own plates and table cutlery. They also provide their own beds and blankets. A " kit " consists of a set of tin dishes, and a straw bed can be bought of venders on the wharfs from $2. 50 to $3. These, especially the beds, are usually thrown away at the end of the voyage. Water has to be obtained on deck, and it is generally much less plentiful than food. There are generally a number of musical instruments and many musicians. On the voyage they amuse themselves with music, songs and dancing. .Every day those who art. able to do so are required to go on deck to get the fresh air. Now, that this era of cheap fares to Europe has been inaugurated in one portion of the ship, it is morally certain that, sooner or later, it must come in the other. To be sure, it does not cost so much to carry the steerage as it does to carry cabin passengers ; but, with con tinually increasing competition, it is very certain that reduction must come in the higher class of fares, and the profits of steamship companies be great lv cnt down. The man who, twenty years ago, would nave spoaen oi going T - . . 1 . - to EuroDe lor iu wouia nave oeen hooted at. That has come to pass, and it cannot be long, with the fierce rivalry now waging, that even greater wonders may be looked for. German Cancer Treatment An arr-niint is civen in the Medicin- istohn Central Zeituna of the new treat ment of cancer whioh has been brought out bv Ir. Hasse, of Berlin. 111s plan is to inject, with a hypodermic syringe, pure alcohol, to wnioa one per cem. ui ether is added, not into the new growth, but around its edges, thus od hterating, he claims, the vessels, espe cially lymphatics, whioh convey the in fection, and causing the atrophy of the growth itself. ine pain is eaiu bo uo rather severe, but is much reduced by ice bags, and lasts only about two hours. The injections are repeated every eight or fourteen days, and have no alarming reactions. Dr. H. claims striking success in corcinoma of the mamma and in cauliflower excrescence of the uterus, but has failed in epithe lioma of the lip, which he attributes to the impossibility of obliterating by this means the large and closely adjacent coronary artery. FUST ASi'D STEEL. A fable paraphraFed from the Spanish ofJYrlarte BY JOHN Ci. RAXF.. The Flint and Stent the story goes Old friends by natural relation. Fell out, one day, and, like two foe, Indulged in bitter altercation. M l"m weary," saltl tue angry VHnt, Of being beat ; 'tis past concealing'; Your conduct (wi'ness many a dint Upon my Bides ! is most unfeeling ! " And what reward have I to Know ? What sort of payment do you render To one who bears each hateful blow That you may blaze in transient splendor:-' ' You seem to think yourself abused,' The Steel replied with proper spirit ; " hut, say, unless with me you're used, Vhat praise of service do you merit . " Your worth as any one may Bee (For all your feeling of defiance) Is simply naught, unlets with me You keep your natural alliance I" " True," said the Flint. " but there's no call, Whate'er my worth, for you to flout it ; INI v value, sir, may b but email : hut think what yours woui-i fce without it ! The writer who depends alone On genius, hoping to be able To cope with scholars fully grown. May profit by this simple fable. As from the Steel no fire comes forth, TTntil it feels the Flint' abrasion ; So, genius is of little worth Without the aid of cultivation ' Hnmor. Rooted sorrow an aching toeth. Best forts for soldiers Com-forts. A favorite American letter An X. Earth's holiest spot The oil regions. Bad study of artists Daggers drawn. The man who lifted his voice was shut up. The worst wheel of the cart moke3 the most noise. The last Parisian rumor threatens the ladies with a revival of the big bonnets of 1834. " Do you take kindly to menial ser vice?" asked a lady of an applicant. " Well, yes ; but should prefer the hymeneal," answered the girl. , The monthly nurse presenting two little strangers (twins) to a father for the first time, " Is it," said he, blush ing, " to make a choice, madam ?" Tiif.rk is not in this wide world happier life Thau to Fit by the stove-pipe aafd tickle your wife ; To kiss her warm lips in your moments of glee, And twist the cat's tail when she jumps on your knee. A bachelor at a banquet in New castle gave the following toast : ' ' The women and coal of Durham county ! Oh, how desolate would be the fireside without them I" A Chtcaoo gentleman, who recently traveled through Ohio says that every body he met called potatoes " taters," except one young lady, who called him a " small pertater." " Bertha." pathetically observed an Ohio saloon-keeper to his wife, " these crusaders are just like the dog in the manger. They won't drink themselves, and they won't allow anybody else to drink. A Westerner, traveling in Europe, being asked if he had seen Mount Ve suvius, replied, " Yes, I saw her spout ing away, and made up my mind we must have a mount just like her near Chicago." A little boy was recently presented with a toy trumpet, to which he became greatly attached. One night, when he was about to be put in his "little bed. and was ready to say his prayers, he handed the trumpet to his grandmother, saying : " Here, grandma, you blow while I pray." A clergyman, who owned a farm, found his plowman sitting on his plow, resting his horse. Quoth the clergy man : " John, wouldn't it be a good plan for you to have a stub-scythe here and be cutting a few bushes along thm fence while the horse is resting a short time ? Wouidt t it be well, sir, said John, "for you to have a tub of potatoes in the pulpit, and when they are singing, peel 'em awhile to be ready for the pot f A Boston Deacon made a sad mis take the other night. Riding home in a horse-car, he was accosted by a friend with : " Ah, Deacon, getting home rather late, eh?" "Well, yes," re plied the Deacon, " 'tis a little late, but I have attended a prayer and conference meeting over in Chelsea this evening, and the interest was prolonged." Just then he inadvertently removed his hat. possibly to relieve his mind, when two theater checks fell out on the floor. It is needless to add that Jones and the Deacon pass without speaking now. Ulde Hunters. It is estimated that the " hide hunt ers of Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Southern Nebraska kill 50,000 buffalo each year for the skins alone ; that the Indians kill three times that number, and that perhaps 10,000 more are killed by sportsmen and those pioneers who depend on the buffalo for their winter meat ; thus we have the enormous fig ure of 210,000 as the annual slaughter. But this even will not represent the grand total, for many calves are cap tured to be sold to menageries, muse ums and private gentlemen who desire such pets. I cannot approach a sum mary of the latter, but think that from 5,000 to 10,000 would be an approxi mate estimate, though a low one. I have known instances where a hundred of these creatures were caught in a day by being run down, and not more than one-tenth were alive the next, for, though apparently strong, they cannot endure much hardship. By giving the figures in round numbers we may esti mate that a quarter of a million bison are destroyed yearly ; and that, I think, will not be far from the exact number. At this rate of destruction they cannot last long, so the present generation will probably witness the decimation of the animal most characteristic of the fauna of North America one with which the history of our plains, pioneers and trappers is most closely blended. Cosmopolitan France. The popula tion of France, consisting of 36,000,000 persons, is a more composite affair than ib commonly apprehended ; it is, indeed, the rendezvous of a large number of visitors and vagabonds from all parts of the world. Alsatians and Lorrainers, Americans, Englishmen, Belgians, Italians, Spaniards, Russians, Poles and U-ermans form the principal for- eisrn elements ; but there are, besides, Dutch, Scandinavians, Anstrians, Hun garians. Turks. Greeks and Asiatics in large numbers, 'which, deducted from the gross population, would considers blv reduce the national census cer tainly over a million. Brooklyn Argus. The telegraph is making itself gener ally useful, and has, in New York, been employed by the lawyers as it has been heretofore by the brokers. A' system of wires has been established under the control of the Law Telegraph Company. which communicate with the offices of the prominent lawyers, and announce the progress of the court business, BUSINESS CARDS. JOHN CONNER, Banking Exchange Office, ALBANY, OREGON. Deposits received subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on time deposits in coin. Exchange on Portland. San Francisco and New York for sale at lowest rates. Collections made and promptly remitted. Refers to H. W. Corbett. Henry Falling. W. N. Ladd. Banking hours from S a. m. to 4 p. m. Albany, Feb. 1, 174. 22vC D. M. .TONES. J. LINSEY HILL. TONES & HILL, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ALBANY, Oregon. 37v(i J. w. BALDWIN, Counselor at Law, Attornoy and Will practice in all the Courts in the Second, Third and Fourth Judicial Districts, in the Supreme Court of Oregon, and in the TJ. H. District and Circuit Courts. Office in Parrieh brick (np-siairs), in ofiice occu pied by the late N. II. Cranor, First street, Albany, Oregon. to!5vG D. B. RICE, M. D., SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. Office, First-st.. Behreen Ferry ami Washington. Residence. Third street, two blocks below or east of Methodist Church, Albany, Oregon. v5n40 J. C. POWELL. L. FLYNN. POWELL FLYNN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, AND SOLICITOUS IN CHANCERY, L. Flinn, Notary Public), Albany, Oregon. Collec tions and conveyances promptly attended to. 1 Albany Book Store. JNO. FOSHAY, Dealer in Miscellaneous Books, School Books, Books, Stationery, Fancy Articles, Blank tc. Books imported to order at shortest possible no- ice. vCuiiO DR. GEO. W. GRAY, D E 1ST T I S Albany, Oregon. T Office in Parrish Brick Block, corner First and Ferry streets. Residence, corner Fifth and Ferry streets. Office hours from 8 to l'Z o'clock a. m. and 1 to 5 o'clock p. m. 18vt Epizootics Distanced. THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES, And is flourishing like a preen bay tree. Thankful for past favors, ami wishing to merit the continu ance of the name, the BAY TKAM will always be ready, aud easily found, to do any hauling within the city limits, for a reasonable compensation. E3? Delivery of goods a specialty. 20v6 A. H. Alt N OLD, Proprietor. W. C. TWEEDALE, Dealer iu Groceries, Provisions, ToDacco, Cigars, Cutlery. Crockery, and Wood and Willow Ware, Albany, Oregon. C5" Call and see him. 245 The Metzler Chair! Can be had at the following places : Harrisburg Sam May Junction City Smith & Braolield Brownsville Kirk & Hume Hilary J. M. Morgan Scio J.J. Brown Albany Graf & Collar A full supply can also be obtained at my old shop on rirst street, Albany, Oregon. J. M. METZLER. Piles !Piles! Why say this damaging and troublesome com plaint cannot be cured, when so many evidences of success might be placed before yoa every day cures of supposed hopeless cases ? Your physician informs you thit the longer you allow the complaint to exist, yon lessen your chances for relief. Ex perience ttas taught this in all cases. A. Carotliers & Co.'s Pile Pills & Ointment Are all they are recommended to be. Will cure Chronic, Blind and Bleeding Piles in a very short time, and are convenient to use. Thtf, preparation is sent by mail or express to any point within the United States at $1.50 per package. Address A. CABOTHEBS ft CO , 27 v5 Box 33. Alabauy. Oregon. JOHN SCHMEER, DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions, ALBANY, OREGON, Has just opened his new grocery establishment, on Corner of Ellsworth and First Streets, With a fresh stock of Groceries, Provisions, Candies, Cigars, Tobacco, ftc, to which he invites the atten tion of our citizens. Iu connection with the store he will keep a Bakery, and will always have on hand a full supply of fresh Bread, Crackers, &c. Call and see me. JOHN SCHMEER. February 1C. 24v4 The Old Stove Depot John Briggs, Healer in Coot, Parlor and Box Stoves ! OF THE BEST PATTERNS. ALSO, Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware, And the usual assortment of Furnishing Goods to be obtained in a Tin store. Repairs neatly and promptly executed on reason able terms. Short. Reckonings Hake Lour? Friends. Front Street, Albany. Dec. 8, 1874. 1 FURNITURE. Everything New. GRAF & COLLAR, Manufacturers and Dealers In FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. Bureaus, Bedsteads, Tables, Lounges, Sofas, Spring Beds, Chairs, Etc., Always on hand or made to order on the shortest notice. Furniture repaired expeditiously and at fair rates. Salesroom and Factory on Klrat Street. ......... W., .. ' . u . ' Albany, Feb. 28, 1871-25. GRAF & COLLAR Range A. W. GAMBLE, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, Etc. Office on First St., over Weed's Urocery Store Residence opposite late residence of John tt "r.,.- denhall, near the Foundry, First street, Albany. October JJ. 1J. Webfoot Market! CHARLES WILSON naving leased the Webfoot Market, on First street, adioining GradwohTs, respectfnlly asks a share ot the public patronage. The market will be kept eon- slant! v supplied wren ail kiuuh oi iresn meats, call and see. IW The highest cash price paid for Hides. CHARLES WILSON. Albany, August 14, 1874. W. H. McFarland, (Late M. M. Harvey ft Co.,) Next Door to Conner's Bank, ALBANY, OREGON. STOVES, RANGES. Force and Lift Pumps, Lead and Iron Pipe, Hollow Ware, House Furnishing Hardware, Tin, Copper Sheet Iron Ware . LARGEST STOCK IN THE VALLEY. LOWEST PRICES EVERY TIME. REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. June 11, 1H74. ALBANY Foundry ana lactone Biiop A. F. CHERRY, Proprietor, ALBANY, OREGON, Manufactures Steam Engines, Flour and Saw Mill Machinery, Wood-WorMiig & Agricnltural Machinery, Aud all kinds of Iron and Brass Castings. Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds of machinery. 41v3 A. CAROTHERS & COT. DEALEItS IN Drugs, Chemicals Oils, Paints, Dyes, Glass, Lamps, Etc.. All the popular PATENT MEDICINES, FINE CUTLERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO. NOTIONS, PERFUMERY, And TOILET GOODS. . Particular care and promptness given physicians prescriptions and family recipes. A. CAROTEERS - fo. Albany, Oregon. 4v5 GrO TO THE BEE-HIVE STORE! - TO BUY Groceries, Provisions, Notions, flee, fltc, fltc. Cheap for Cash 11 Conntry Produce of All Kinds BonghJ For Merchandise or Cash. This Is the p'ace to get the Best Bargains Ever Offered in Albany,. Parties will always do well to call and see for them- -selves. H. WEED. First Street, Albany, Oregon. 32v6 Ye OLD MEXICAN Mustang Liniment Was first known in America. Its merits are now well known throughout the habitab'e world. It ha the oldest and best record of any Liniment in th world. From the millions upon million of bottle sold not a single complaint bos ever reached us. A -a Healing and Pain-Subduing Liniment it has no equal. It is alike BENEFICIAL TO MAN AND BEAST. Sold by all Druggists. S.T. -I860--X. V OLD Homestead Tonic Plantation Bitters I a purely Vegetable Preparation, composed of Calisaya Bark, Roots, Herbs and Fruits, among whieh will be found Karsaparilliun, Dandelion, Wild unerry, Haasairas, Tansy, Uentlau, Bweet nag, etc.; also Tamarinds, Dates, Prunes and Juniper .Berries, preserved in a sufficient quantity (only) of the spirit of Sugar Cane to keep in any climate. They Invari ably relieve and core the following complaints : Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaints, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Bilious Attacks, Fever and Ague, Bummer Complaints, Hour Stomach, Palpita tion of the Heart, General Debility, etc. They are especially adapted as a remedy for the diseases to which WOMEN Are subjected ; and as a tonic for the Aged, Feeble and Debilitated, have no equal. They are strictly in tended as a Temperance Tonic or Bitters, to be used as a medicine only, and always according to directions. Sou by all Fibst-Class Dbugoists. t i