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Hang Ugi0itv. vrniJSHKO EVERT FRIDAY BY COLL VAN CLKVE. ALBANY, OREGON. CALEVAR. A Vale of Cimb Vnir. .-.. The approaching marriage of Isa Can telvar, the wealthy belle of Havana, was no secret in the Cuban capital. Her Spanish lover, a lineal descendant of the fierce snbduer of the Aztecs, old Herman Cortez, was crossing the ocean to claim his love, and great preparations lor the event were going on at the Can telvar mansion, whose foundation was washed by the waters of the gulf. ( Isa was very beautiful, and her ac complishments were of the highest order. The only child of a man who was proud of his name and of her face ; she had been petted but I will not say spoiled. Her jewels were as remark able as her beauty, and it was rumored that Senor Cantelvar had purchased some of ex-Queen Isabella's gems for his daughter's nuptials. This rumor was pretty generally believed, and many fashionable people went to the mansion hoping to catch a glimpse of the stones that had once glittered on the bosom of royalty. But the curiosity seekers were disappointed ; they saw no ex-Spanish gems. In due time, a vessel landed the Cas pian lover on Cuban soil, and the great event Isa's marriage neared its con summation. Among the many people who had wit nessed the lover's debarkation, was a tall, dark featured man, about forty years of age. He was remarkably handsome ; his eyes were dark and lus trous, and his mouth was shaded by the silken hairs of a mustache. He wore the undress uniform of a Captain in the Spanish navy, which was not needed to give him a commanding ap pearance. His whole bearing indicated a firmness of purpose, a stubbornness of will, that would listen to no arguments, and a daring that would shrink from no undertaking. He stood apart from all other people watching the debarkation of the Vul ture's passengers. The soft tropical twilight hung over the island capital ; but he could see the faces of the pas sengers quite distinctly. Suddenly he started, and mechanic ally his right hand clenched vengefully. There was a rising and falling of the mustache, as if the unseen lips had opened and closed again, and the eyes were assuming an animated brilliancy. The cause of this strange commotion was a man who had just stepped upon the pier. He stood scarcelv twentv feet from the Captain, and his face was plainly j discernible. A handsome man he was. There was the - stamp of nobihty on his face, and : he bore a resemblance to certain por- traits of Cnrtpr. still pxtimt Hfl was I traits of Cortez still extant. He was watching the debarkation of numerous j trunks that bore the name of Don Cor- i tez d'Alvaro. But by and by he turned away, and j hailed the driver of a violante. "It is he!" muttered the Captain, speaking audibly for the first time. " tie is the cnosen lover or peuontaisa His trunks are full of jewels no doubt.' And then a develish laugh rippled over the unseen lips. He watched the violante until it van ished from sight, when he walked for ward and began to inspect the trunks, i They numbered quite a score, and some j were small but heavily bound. He i walked among them carelessly as it were, 1 bnt noticed everything, and all at once be bnrt forth with "Five trunks full of jewels ! Why ; they would make a don out of Cale- ; var. A moment later he walked away, 1 closely followed by a dwarfish man who had the peculiar gait of the sailor. Though the Captain walked fast, the sailor trained on him, and as he was boat to enter a hotel a hand touched his elbow. The tall man turned quickly, and peered down into the distorted face. " And so yon are here ?" he said in melodious Spanish. " Where have yoH been?" " To the wharf." The Captain's eyes glistened "Hecame " " With five trunks of jewels for his bride." But she shall never wear them." " No." Good ! Come to mv room. I want to show you something." The two men passed into the narrow hall and ascended a stairway to a room. In the center of this apartment stood a table on which lay an elegant sword of genuine Toledo workmanship. On the sheath, elegantly worked, was the name "Calevar," and the blade bore the inscription : " From the Queen to Calevar." Above the single bed tinner the eoreeous dress uniform of a Spanish naval commander, and a tmir of splendid boots stood under the tolle' - U XT- All this was revealed when the room was lighted up, and Calevar threw him self into a cnair beside the table, and drew a paper from an inner pocket. Unrolling it he disclosed to the eyea of the dwarf who perched upon a stool was bending over the table like a monkey the complicated plan of a house. " Here is the Gulf," said Calevar, tonchinp; a shaded place with his finger. You will wait f6r me here. You see I have designated the exact spot. Yon cannot miss it. Long ago, some. per son Calevar's father perhaps drove a huge staple into the walk It is there. See it. You cannot miss it. It is be neath that staple that you will await for my signal." The dwarf looked up, 'and smiling hideously, nodded. " Can't you fail, senor Captain ?" "Fail ? No !" said Calevar. " I know the interior of the house. I can go di rectly tg the treasure room, and, so sure as there's a God in heaven, I'll show you the girl's jewels on my own deck. She wouldn't marry Calevar. If she marries D'Alvaro, she will do so jewelless. Ah ! this, Domargo, is Calevar's revenge 1" He laughed devilishly, and in that laugh the chattering of the dwarf joined. Then several bottles of wine were produced from a sideboard, and the twain drank long and deep. It was midnight when Domargo, the Bailor dwarf, left the room. He stole out quietly, for Calevar was asleep. The wine had affected him. " For twelve years Domago has served Calevar," said the dwarf, when he again found himself on the deserted streets. " He has sailed with him to other worlds biding bis time. That time is very near at hand. Calevar does not think that Domargo is the brother of the little girl he made his wife in Barcelona, and then murdered on ship board." The last words, full of hellish re- venge, dropped in hiBses from the re- Eulsive lips of the dwarf, and at last e lost himself among the shipping in the harbor. And Calevar, the revengeful, the cov etous, the rejected lover of Isa Cantel var, slumbered on, never dreaming that the dwarf who had served him so faith fully for twelve years, was delivering him over to a fate, from the contempla tion of which the mind would shrink with horror. It was the night before Isa Cautel var's wedding. The hour was twelve, and Havana slept on the edge of the Gulf. Not a sound came from the old house bo soon to resound with marriage mu sic, and with the groans of one doomed to a living death. The fair Isa, no doubt, was sleeping away her last maiden hours, for the day soon to dawn was to see her a bride be fore it departed. The sky was covered with opaque clonds. Not a star was visible, for the rifts, if there were any, were as black as tne clouds. Therefore, the crouching figure that crossed the flower garden was not per ceived. It seemed a man, yet it had the motion of an animal. It paused before a low door in the eastern wing of the Cantelvar mansion and listened. The wash of the waves against the walls was the only sound that came to the solitary being. Then it struck the door twice, and the portal opened noise lessly, and closed again. But the night prowler was not to be seen without ; he was within the mansion. The person who had admitted him seemed to be a small man. The person admitted was tall and wore a mask that effectually concealed his features. " You can find your way now ?" asked the traitor. "Yes ; give me the light." The dark taper was placed in his hands. " You have the keys," said the traitor. " May the Virgin speed you ; I will be at the wharf. We sail to-night." " Yes, to-night. Be there !" A moment later,the tall man moved off, leaving the other watching him and his light. More than one lcng corridor the masked one traveled, and the silence of death was about him. His feet gave forth no sound, for they were encased in nothing but short Cuban hose, and there were no obstacles in his path. The ornamented butts of the pistols visible just above his belt told that he was prepared for an emergency, and his left hand clutched the hilt of a dagger whose blade was hidden in his sleeve. At last he paused before a door much smaller than anv he had encountered in the he use. and its heaw locks told that it led to a room where valuable treasure ay. The mask listened a long time at the , . i tha to fl on whch he tood was ite " . , , , - Jamn. and tbe walls about him were covered with icy sweat. The curiously shaped key that he drew from his pocket opened the little door, and the night prowler found himself in a small room. Closing the door gently he soon pro duced a stronger light, and the glare that suddenly dazzled his eyes almost 1 sent him to the floor. A table stood in the center of the treasure room, and on that table were the treasures for which he had seem ingly entered the Cantelvar mansion. There were necklaces of diamonds and tiaras of rubies ; bracelets of pearls and pins of emeralds ; head-dresses of beaten gold, studded with precious stones, and rings whose value seemed incalculable. He stood before Isa Cantelvar's wed ding gifts ! About him on the floor was the old Cuban's wealth coffers full of doub loons, safes well stored with precious stones. The five small trunks which Capt. Calevar had noticed on the pier were there, but they were empty. The jewels they had carried across the ocean glittered on the table. For many minutes the mask stared at the array of wealth, and thn, as if to test the reality of things, he approached and took up a costly necklace. " She shall never wear this V he said after a moment's inspection, and then the costly bauble disappeared beneath his doublet. A tiara of beautiful rubies followed the necklace, and then rixigs, bracelets and ether rich personal ornaments dis appeared. He discarded many rich things with the discrimination of a lapidary, and when he was about to turn away, he laughed. " I can't take any of your doubloons, Senor Cantelvar 1" he said. " They are very pretty, very good, but your daugh ter's wealth is more portable. I guess I carry about four hundred thousand doubloons' worth of pebbles on my per son. Ha ! ha ! Isa wouldn't marry Cal evar !" He put his hand on the door, when the slightest of noises startled him. At the sound of his name he turned quickly, and faced six men with drawn pistols. Had they sprung from the floor of the treasure room ? There stood old Senor Cantelvar, and his bps were still quivering with the name just spoken. Beside the Cuban stood the youth who had lately landed from the Vulture. The mask did not drop his taper and turn for flight. On the contrary, he said, " Well !" and looked into the muzzles of the pistols without a tremor. " We know you !" said Senor Can telvar. "And I know you! was the re joinder. " You came thither for the wedding gifts." " And I have got them " " Do you expect to keep them ?" " No not now !" " Advance and put them on the table." Calevar advanced without hesitation, and his hand crept to his bosom. But it did not draw a single diamond thence. It came forth empty, but the next in stant it was filled by the butt of a pistol. He raised it quickly, and Senor Cantel var went to the floor. The next moment there were sounds of struggling in the treasure room, and when they grew still Calevar, with the mask stripped from his handsome Span ish face, sat in a great iron arm-chair. Strong ropes bound him to the seat, and iron bands fastened his feet to the floor. The table groaned beneath the most palatable of Cuban viands, and a rich candelabrum, suspended from the ceil ing, revealed the sumptuous board. There was humerous bottles of Spanish and island wines on the table ; but he could not touch one with bis outstretch ed arm. Piled upon either side of him were chests of Spanish doubloons, and the doors of iron safes were open reveal ing the glittering wealth of more than one mine. He groaned when he compre hended his situation, and then he cursed till his tongue refused to blaspheme longer. " This is your fate Capt. Calevar," said Senor Cantelvar's well-known voice. ' ' You sought wealth and you have it. What you see is yours. You are welcome to take it away. You'll find the wine the best. There are two bottles of your favorite Catalonia, and two of thirty-five year Madeira. Pleas and dreams to you, Senor Captain !" The silence that followed was awful. " If Domargo knew this !" cried Cale var. "Holy Virgin !" where is the dwarf?" A hellish laugh answered him. " Dormargo is here !" said the dwarf's voice. " He is Vinities brother ! Ha! ha ! ha ! Good-by Captain ! The Sea Cross will sail this time without yon." " Betrayed !" groaned the doomed man, and for the first time his bravery deserted him. Ho fainted in the iron chair. The next day there was the sound of merry voices far above him. Angels seemed to be singing to him in hell. By and by the sounds ceased. Isa Cantelvar was a bride ! No sounds now but the wash of the gulf waves against the walls of the trea sure room. Days came and went. The bottles on the table grew moldy ; the oranges rotted ; the delicacies spoil ed ; the candelabrum's light went out ; but there was a grinning man in the iron chair. The Sea Cross sailed away with out him. A year ago that terrible room was opened. A skeleton seated in an iron chair told the story of Cuban vengeance. JsSOp. Probably every one has heard of the fables of .Esop, yet if questioned as to their authorship, how many could give any account ? The life of .Esop, as it is given before so many editions of his fables, is an in vention of one Planudes, a Greek monk of the sixth or seventh century. The same may be said of a large proportion of the fables which bear his name. Scores of fables by the priests and monks of the first to the sixth century are accredited to iEsop. It is so witn many traditions. Of the real life of .Esop little is known with certainty. "The different tradi tions, opinions and conjectures of iEsop by both ancient and modern writers would fill a large volume." Phsedrus, Euripides, Plutarch, Plato, Aristotle, Gellius, and in fact nearly all of tbe writers of the ancient Greeks mention him. ' ' Yon have not so much as read -Esop, " was a proverbial expression for ignorance. JEsop flourished about B. C. 550, a hundred years before Herodotus, the most ancient Greek historian, and four hundred years after Homer. He was born at some town in Phrygia, and was by condition a slave, though probably he rose above that condition, as he be came an eminent speaker. Most writers also ascribe to him a deformed person. Perhaps it is on this account he got the name of Gelootopotos.as he is called by Lucian. Indeed, it is not material whether he was bond or free, whether handsome or ugly. He has left us a legacy in his writings that for 2,500 years has pre served his memory dear to us. And although in this long period the cir cumstances of his Ufe have been lost, his fables remain, and will continue to instruct as they have in the past. Hearth and Home. Journalism as a Profession. The Secretary of the Treasury, in a decision rendered has given the profes sion of journalism a new distinction. He has recognized it as one of the learned professions, to be ranked, at least so far as classification in the tariff laws goes, with medicine, juris prudence, and theology. An American journalist, who was returning from Eu rope, bringing with him a considerable quantity of book, amounting in value to several hundred dollars, for use in his own library, claimed that the books were entitled to be entered duty free as a portion of his professional journal library. He bases this application upon that section in the customs laws which makes provisi on for the free importa tion of books for the use of a library of a physician, a lawyer, and a clergy man. The Custom-House officers at Baltimore, at which port the books were imported, decided that journal ism is not a profession, and that these books could not be imported under that provision. An appeal was taken to the Secretary of the Treasury, who has de cided that journalism is a profession to such an extent as will give a journalist the advantages of this provision of the law. How to Make Mischief. Keep your eye on your neighbors. Take care of them. Do not let them stir without watching. They may do something wrong if you do. To be sure, you never knew them to do anything bad, but it may be on your account they have not. Perhaps if it had not been for your kind care, they might have dis graced themselves a long time ago. Therefore do not relax any effort to keep them where they ought to be. Never mind your own business that will take care of itself. There is a man passing alonghe is looking over the fence be suspicious of him ; perhaps he contem plates stealing, some of these dark nights, there is no knowing what queer fancies may have got into his head. If you find any symptoms of any one passing out of the path of duty, tell every one else what you see, and be par ticular to see a great many. It is a good way to circulate such things, though it may not benefit yourself particularly. Do keep something going silence is a dreadful thing ; though it is said there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour, do not let any such thing occur on earth, it would be too much or this mundane sphere. Mistaken Advertising. An ex change expresses the opinion that the public can be better reached through the columns of a newspaper of a fair circulation than through all the other mediums, costly circulars, cards, pos ters, give-aways and jimcracks put to gether. The old-established county newspaper is, after all, the only general, judicious medium for advantageous advertising. A thousand doors are opened to welcome it ; a thousand mes sengers are weekly seeking the Post office to receive it ; a thousand families look for its coming, and ten thousand read it when it does come, advertise ments and all. There is much truth in this. The thousands of dollars wasted annually upon expensive almanacs, cir culars and other questionable methods of advertising, which, in company with Patent Office reports, find their way to the junk-shop, would render very ma terial aid toward the support of num bers of deserving papers, and also re turn something in the way of profit to the advertiser. All Sorts. It costs only half a cent a mile to go to Europe. Olive Habper, a gossipping Ameri can newspaper correspondent, has just keen married to a French Mar quis. It is stated that among persons of eighteen and nnder, the proportion of the illiterate is smaller in San Francisco than in any other large city in the Union. A four-yeak-old child in Tnscarora, Pa., has actually died of drunkenness. Its besotted mother fed it with whisky until after weeks of steady intoxication it died. Capt. John Boston, of Lewis county, Kv aged 95, and a veteran of the war of 1812, is about to be married. His intended bride is only a year older than himself. Mrs. Scott-Siddons has left England on a "farewell tour" through India, China, Japan and the United States and it will take two years to bid every body adieu. A remarkable instance of the increase in the sale of imported ox tongues is afforded by the trade done at Paysan au, in Uraguay. At this little town, during the last season, about 150,000 ox tongues were packed in hermetically-sealed tins and shipped to En gland. C. Cobb, a printer, while trying to mount ms nery steed upon the streets of St. Louis the other day, was bitten by the other cob upon the arm. A fel low feeling, probably, made the animal wondrous kind. Me saw a (Jobb, and thinking him " corned, wanted to eat him. If a young lady has a brother, and that brother wears a brown felt hat worth $2, and he should come home late at night from seeing some friends, with that hat crushed into " forty-seven " shapes, the young lady should imme diately seize it and by strewing a rosette of velvet and some ribbon over it, she will have a hat of the latest style, worth about $10. The Marchioness of Thomond, who has just died at 82 years of age, was the widow of a nobleman who used to claim that according to lineal descent, he would be the lawful King of Ireland. The Marquis and Marchioness used to live at Bath, and their equipage was about the best known in that city. The Marquis died some twenty years' go. The widow married Rear Admiral Fane, R. N. Contrasts in New York. It is the common thing to contrast the old style of doing business with the new; the old style of politeness and courtesy with the new style of impertin ence and incivility ; the eighteen hours of labor at the little pine desk with the " down at 11 and off at 3" which marks many of the modern business men. But there are other contrasts. It is fash ionable for the young operators in the street to dine at Delmonico's at an ex pense of from $2 to 85 a day, when a good lunch could be had for fifty cents ; i a cab is hired for $3, while the Astors ride up in an omnibus for ten cents. I i saw a young man the other day who had I on a rough outfit. I had known him on i the street as a smart operator and fash j ionably dressed. ' ' I have been on the 'street," he said, "ten years; I have made a great deal of money and lost it all ; I made $28,000 in puts and calls in i one day the next I was flat on my back. ; I had to eat what I did not wish, drink : what I knew hurt me, and go into com ; binations that my judgment did not j approve. I am now in the lumber busi ! ness. I make 3,000 a year. I live better, have more money, have more j comfort in my family, and sleep sweeter ; than I have for ten years. " The two ' great merchants of the city, Peter i Cooper and William E, Dodge, ride about the city on business in a plain one-horse buggy that the youngsters on the street would be ashamed to drive upon the road, yet these gentlemen have more money to give away, and are not afraid of being ruined every day of their lives. The economy and modesty of this class could be safely studied by the fast young man of our city and dy. New York Cor. Boston Journal. The Weather. It is predicted by those who profess to be " weather wise," if not otherwise, that the extraordinary mildness of the present season will characterize the whole winter ; in other words, that the winter of 1874-'5 will bear comparison with some which have " long gone by." Thus, an English chronicle relates that in 1172 the temperature was so high that leaves came out on the trees in J an uary and birds hatched their brood in February. In 1289 the winter was equally mild, and the maidens of Co logne wore wreaths of violets and corn flowers at Christmas and on Twelfth Day. In 1421 the trees flowered in the month of March, and the vines in the month of April ; cherries ripened in the same month, and grapes appeared in May. In 1572 the trees were covered with leaves in January, and the birds hatched their young in February, as in 1172 ; in 1585 the same thing was re peated, and it is added that the corn was in the ear at Easter. There was in France neither frost or snow through out the winters of 1538, 1607, 1609, 1617, and 1659 ; finally, in 1662, even in the north of Germany, the stoves were not lighted, and trees flowered in Feb ruary. Coming tbylate dates,, the win ter of 1846 '7, and that of 1866, the year of the great inundation of the Seine, may be mentioned as exception ally mild. An Ex-Executioner. Figaro's reporter always saw at the Paris executions an old man dressed in black, of distinguished appearance, and who always took an intense interest in all the details, and was on familiar terms with all the functionaries. For a long time the reporter was mystified, and finally resorted to an interview. His man proved to be an ex-dignitary of -he guillotine. He had been the assistait for many years of Heindreich, the fdv mer executioner. He attends the exe cutions out of a feeling of " home-sickness for his ancient occupation. " He finds the present executions only so-so, and says that Heindreich was more dis tingue. In his retinement he has made himself a little guillotine, and guillo tines rats and mice at his home, No. 131 Boulevard Mont Parnasse. The English firm of powder manufac turers that owned the cargo which re cently exploded with such damaging re sults a few weeks ago, contributed $500 to the relief fund of the sufferers. According to the late Prof. Agassiz, the Adirondack group of mountains is the oldest in the world-the land which first made its appearance above tne waters of the great primeval ocean. Wonderful Curiosity. The British ship Scindia, Capt. Geo. Harrison, arrived here a few days since from Calcutta, having on board one of the most remarkable natural curiosities the world has probably ever seen. It consists of a short-horned, sacred Brah min bull, born in Nepaul, Northern India, in 1871, and imported here by Capt. William Demiison Folger, form erly of this city, but latterly a resident of Calcutta. The bull itself is a re markable curiosity, and is one of that description of animals held in great reverence by the natives of India, on account of its traditional sacred charac ter. But in this case a novel lusus naturae renders it a most singular crea ture. The brute portion is symmetric ally formed with a glossy coat of fawn colored hair and well-shaped body and limbs. But protruding, as it were, from the left side of the hump on the back of the neck of the animal, is a wonder ful and regularly-shaped, in nearly all respects, human arm. The deltoid and triceps and biceps muscles are well de veloped, particularly the latter ; the joint at the elbow is flexible, the fore arm rather attenuated, the wrist as fully flexible as in the human arm proper, while the hand is composed of four dis tinctly marked fingers, two of them con nected together. The extraordinary ap pendage to an otherwise well-formed body does not appear to give the crea ture any inconvenience or pain, gener ally hanging listlessly by its side, ex cept when it is angered or annoyed, when the arm raises as if if) possessor felt inclined to " strike from the shoul der." The animal is quite healthy, enjoys a ravenous appetite, the nice grass of its native clime being its fa vorite food, and does not seem to have suffered any bodily injury by its long sea voyage. If not disposed of in this country, we learn that it is the inten tion of the importer to take the creature to England, and secure it a place in the London Zoological Gardens, where such novelties are highly prized. It would prove a unique attraction to the natural curiosities in our Central Park. It has already been visited on the Scindia by several scientific gentlemen of this city and Biooklyn, where the ship lies, near he Fulton ferry. New York Herald. A Man Slaughters One Hundred Striped Snakes. Last spring Will Moody moved out of his log house in' Union Grove, and it stood unoccupied and desolate for several weeks, but last July Ed. Asher purchased the property and moved into the old house to stop only while he could build a new frame house.. He had hardly settled his family in their new quarters before they had a practical demonstration that there were occupants there before them, who evi dently looked upon the new comers as iitruders, and these old settlers, were shakes ! The little striped garter saakes. The first night in the house, there vas a great rustling on the floor like tie pattering of myriads of mice, but it was mice not that made the noise; it was tie sound from dozens of snakes as they diagged themselves across the floor. Delightful ! In the morning Mr. A. used to get up, shake the reptiles out of his clothes, grasp a pitchfork and pitch the slimy devils out of doors. It was no uncom mon thing to kill half a dozen in the morning. The second and third days were worse than the first. At breakfast one morning Mr. A. ielt something crawling up his leg, and, glancing down ward, found a beautiful little striped fellow working his way up in the world. Another time he found a three-loot fel low in his overcoat pocket, who greeted him on his approach with a friendly kiss. This nuisance became intolerable. The house was old and the mortar in the clinking had given away in many places, and in the evening ao sooner was the lamp lighted than a serenade of hisses would begin, and nearly every one of the holes would be ornamented with a snake's head. At the snd of the fourth day, Mr. Asher grasped his shovel and went to tbe bankxig of the house, a mass of straw and dirt that had not been moved for several fears, and here were their snakeships m all their glory. It was a perfect massacre, for in that banking he found and killed an even hundred garter snakes. Thirty were found in one nest. There's a scarcity of the serpent around' Mr. A.'s farm now. Litchfield Minn.) Ledger. Habits of the Ostrich. The fallacy that ostriches do not sit on their eggs, but leave them to be hatched out by the heat of the tun, is upset by the report of a Captain of an Algerian regiment in the Bulletin of the Paris Acclimatization Society. Ac cording to the same authority, the num ber of eggs laid by one female averages about eighteen, but the whole of these are hardly ever sat upon. In many cases they are left entirely alone, with out being once covered, and of course they are not hatched. In ftiose cases where the birds brood over the eggs, three or four are always ejected from the nest. This apparent wantonness on the part of the parent bird has its ob ject ; and the object is, that the eggs shall serve as food for the chicks till they are big enough to accompany their parents to the breeding-grounds. An ostrich's nest is often built in the midst of a desert, many miles away from a blade of grass : and ii some tjrovis- ion were not made for the young bird, it would be born only to die. This fact has been proved by placing some food cut fine near the newly-hatched ostriches, but they refused it, and, the mother having broken the shells of several of the rejected eggs, they greedi ly ate the contents, swallowing a quan tity of sand with the yelk of the egg. Anthony Combtock, chief detective of the New York Society for the Sup pression of V ice, told a Brooklyn meet ing the other evening that nineteen tons of obscene publications have been seized this year, with account books showing the names of 4,500 dealers all over tne country, une nunorea per sons have been convicted during the year. A lew nignts later uomstocK s face was terriDiy gasnea Dy a uitk m the hands of one of the dealers whom he had arrested. But for his great physical strength Comstock would doubtless have been murdered. The Richmond ( Va.) Enquirer says : "Lynchburg is to have a likeness of Seta tor Thurman, taken by her own photographer. During his recent visit to his native town the Senator gave Vn Ness a sitting, and the vaineBt town in thr State is supremely happy in the possession of her favorite son's negathe." Rice Cvke. One cup of rice flour, three eggs, one cup of sugar. Beat the eggs to standing froth, then add the sugar an beat as much longer or untd light ; add he rice flour and beat light again. Bako j, a quick oven. As there is neither butte. nor soda in it, it is a trood cake for invava.s. BUSINESS CARDS. JOHN CONNER, Banking AND 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 Bale at lowest rates. Collections made and promptly remitted. Kefers to H. W. Corbett, Henry Failing, W. S. Ladd. Banking hours from 8 a. in. to 4 p. ni. Albany, Feb. 1, 1874. 22v6 D. M. JONES. J. LINSEY HIIX. JONES & HILL, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, AtjBany, Oregon. 37v0 . J. W. BALDWIN, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Will practice in all the Courts in the Second, Third and Fourth Judicial Districts, in the Supreme Court of Oregon, and in the IT. S. District and Circuit Courts. Office in Parrish brick (np-staire), in oftice occu pied by the late N. H. Crauor, First street, Albany, Oregon. tol5v6 D. B. RICE, M. D., SURCEON AND PHYSICIAN. Office, First-st., BeUreen Ferry and Washington. Residence, Third street, two blocks below or east of Methodist Church, Albany, Oregon. v.u4U J. C. POWELL. Ii. FliYNN. POWELL & FLYNN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY, Ii. Flinn, Notary Public), Albany, Oregon. Collec tions and conveyances promptly attended to. 1 Albany Book Store. JNO. FOSHAY, Dealer in Miscellaneous Books, School Books, Blank Books, Stationer;, Fancy Articles, tc. Books imported to order at shortest possible no ice. vGu:K) DR. GEO. W. GRAY, D E 1S3" T I S Albany, Oregon. T Office in Parrish Brick Block, corner First and Ferry streets. Residence, corner Fiftb and Ferry streets. Otttce hours from. M to 12 o clock a. ni. and 1 to 5 o'clock p. m. 18v6 Epizootics Distanced. THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES, And is flourishing like a green bay tree. Thankful for past favors, and wishing to merit i he continu ance of the same, the BAY TEAM will always be ready, and easily found, to do any hauling within the city limits, for a reasonable compensation. Z?? Delivery of goods a specialty. 20v5 A. N. ARNOLD, Proprietor. W. C. TWEEDALE, Dealer in Groceries, ProYisions. Tobacco. Cigars, Cutlery. Crockery, and Wood and Willow Ware. Albany, Obeoon. By C:iU aud see him. 24v5 The Metzler Chair! Can be had at the following places : Harrisburg Sam May Juuction City hmith Brasneld Brownsville.". Kirk & Hume Halsey J. M. Morgan Scio J. J. Brown Albiiuy Graf & Collar A fil supply can also be obtained at my old shop on First street, Albany, Oregon. J. M. METZLER. Piles! Piles! Why say this damaging and troublesome com plaint cannot be enwd, when so many evidences of success might be placed before you every day cures of supposed hopeless cases ? Your physician informs you that the longer you allow the complaint to exist, you lessen your chances for relief. Ex paiatee hat taught thin in all coses. A. Carotliers & Co.'s Pile Pills & Ointment Are all they are recomm ended to be. Will cure Chronic, Blind and BIediii Piles in a very short tinus aud are convenient to vnc. This preparation is sent by mail or express to any point within the Vuited States at $1.50 per package. Address A. CARD CII Kits Ac CO , 27v5 Box :J3, Alabany, Oregon. JOHN feCHMEER, DEALER IN Groceries aid 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. &c, to which he invitee the atten tion of our citizens. In connection with the store be will keep a Bakery, and will arways have on hand a full supply of fresh Bread, Crackers, &c. Call and see me. JOHN PCHMEER. February lfi. 2v4 The Old Stove Depot John Brigi?s, Dealer in Cool:, Parlor and Box Stoves! OF THK BUST I'ATTKKXS. A. Ti S O , 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 Make Long Friends. Front Street, Albany. Dec. S, 1874. I 7UimiTUirE7 Everything New. GRAF & COLLAR, Manufacturers and Dealers In FTJ ENITURE 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 drat Street, near Schmeer's Bakery. Albany, Feb. 28, 1874-25. GRAF & COLLAR. Rang A. W. GAMBLE, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, Etc. Office on First St., over Weed's Grocery Store Residence opposite late residence of John C Men denball, near the Foundry, First street, Albanv October 22. 1873. Webfoot M arket! CHARLES WILSON Having leased the Webfoot Market, on FlrBt street, adjoining Gradwohl's, respectfully asks a share of the public patronage. The market will be kept con stantly supplied with all kinds of fresh meats. Call and see. tar- The highest cash price paid for Hides. CHARLES WILSON. Albany, August 14, 1874. W. H. McFarland (Late M. M. Harvey & 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 I Sheet Iron Ware LARGEST STOCK IN THE VALLEY. LOWEST PRICES EVERY TIME. REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. .Tune 11, 1874. ATBA TV7V XXUJJZliU JL Foundry anil lactone 8bop:, A. F. CHERRY, Proprietor, ALBANY,. OREGON, Manufacture? Steam Engines. Flour and Saw Mill Machinery, Wood-Worlcing & Agricultural Machiiiery f : And all kinds of Iron and Brass Castings. Particular attention paittto repairing all kinds ct machinery. 4lv3 A. CAROTHERS & CO.. DEALERS IK 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 i prescriptions and family recipes. A. CAKOTIIEHS k. fK Albany, Oregon. 4V.j CiO TO THE BEE-HIVE STORE? TO BUT " 9 Groceries, Provisions, Notions, &c, &c, &c, Cheap for Cash ! Country Produce of All KiMs Bought For Merchandise or Cash. Tins is the p'ace to get tbe Best Bargains Ever Offered in Albany. Parties will always do well to call and see for them selves. H. WEED. First Street, Albany, Oregon. 32vC OLD MEXICAN Mustang Liniment Was first known in America, rts merits are now well known throughout the habitable world. It has the oldest and best record of anv Liniment in the world. Prom the millions ujon millions of bottles sold not a single complaint has ever reached n. As a Healing and Pain-Snbduing Liniment it has no equal. It is alike BENEFICIAL TO MAX AND BEAST. Sold by all Druggists. S.T.--I860--X. Ye OLD Homestead Tonic Plantation Bitters Is a pnrely Vegetable Preparation, composed of Calisaya Bark, Boots, Herbs and Fruits, among which will be found Sarsaparillian, Dandelion, Wild Cherry, Sassafras, Tansy, Gentian, Sweet Flag, 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 cure the following complaints : Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaints, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Bilious Attacks. Fever and Ague, Summer Complaints, Sonr 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 aa 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. SoL.r by all First-Class Druggists.