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IK JFOMSIGy LAXDS, To this pretty, womanly city there are wo sides, a writer tells us; it is the most deceitful city in the world a city of wide and wonderful contrasts. Venice is full of beauty, but full of ugliness also. It ia full of gayety, but overfull of want and wretchedness. The great attraction, however, to one who dwells long in Venice is the gentleness and the never-failing politeness of its people of all classes and all conditions. Beautiful, beautiful Venice ! A dead and decaying city of cholera and half the diseases o . the world, yet all the time as beautif- j ujr aream or picture, u ne oeauty - arff m yuuuxx woman. A diy hick at w jtr, full of decay and disease. A city o on- - vasts ana contradictions. 'Xne jrirv of mn, xustory, ana song, yes nou sad as a shell of the sea. ah account or - the stre jag& of the wpamsn army , has been ' jaftfiuhed. It mnsiiitsof 40 regizaeuta of tSieline (80 batta lions), 80,000 men; 39 battalions of light. infantry,, 24,000 ?.nv 4 regiments f f t artillery, i, 000 man; 5 rerimente of 1 wne artUlwy (180 gams), 2,500 men; , r egunents m. ngnieerc, 6,000 men; 17 re guweotsaf Heavy, eavalry, 5,540 men; 8 MadroB8 af ligat owralry, 800 men ; 2 r assmeatsof .hussars, ;840 men. These EHS88 men form Che regular army. D Uexexe also layOOO carabineros, or satoa thocao soldiers, and 105,000 men ,. 3aUed-etit in 1873 ana 1874. This makes m total, on paper, of. 257,986 men at the tSaposal of the new "King. . They are not 3af3friflnt for his wants, however, for he -Jm has, decreed levy of 70,000 more, 'rutdera conscription which allows of cx . . "-eajpiaon only by the payment of $275. r " JL COB&BE J.V THE A.XX. Tfce Paris correspondent of the Phila ' -"delphia tPress -writes : One of the strangest and most horrible - sensationsl incidents took place the - -other day at "Puteaux. A party of chil--2re who were playing in the environs discovered floating in the air and partly -entangled amid the branches of a tree a "white parcel -upborne by some twenty or ' thirty litSe Ted toy-balloons which were -attached to it. The attention of the polioebexDg called to this singular ob ject, was brought down and the pack age opened, which proved to contain the orpae of a new-born infant. Iirvee ligation into the matter brought to light the following facts : The child was ihat .of a poor toy-maker and his wife; just after the confinement of the : latter 4he ihusband had died suddenly, and sH the household goods and chattels bad een seized for rent. The unhappy woman -was. driven mad by this aocumu . lation of misfortunes ; she killed her in fant, land then went out and threw her aelf into -the river, leaving a written paper in -which -she declared .her intention to commit suicide, and said that she " had gotten Iter baby all ready to go up to beaven. " Aadder tale with a stranger toraunation it would be hard to find. The toy-balloons had evidently formed patt.dl.flie dead husband's stock in trade. jkjm&ino in china. K 3e.a singular fact that the custom of kissing is altogether unknown in China. ' The Chinese, indeed, have no word or term expressing love as we understand the tender passion. An American navy officer voyaging Chinaward narrates an amnwing experience of the ignorance of the Chinese maidens of the science of kissing.. Wishing to complete a con- - quest ne naa made of a young mei iin (beautiful lady) he invited her using the. lyngliHh words to give him a kiss. xontung ner eomprcnenaion of ins re quest .somewliat obscure, he suited the action to the word and took a delicious kxaa. " TChe girl ran away into another room, "thoroughly alarmed, exchvming, "Terrible man-eater I ' I shall be devoured-.But in a moment, finding herself ' uninjured by the - salute, returned to his aide, ; saying : she "I -would. learn more of your strange rite. Ke-e-met": He knew it wasn't 'right, but fee kept on instructing her in the rite of "kee-e-es me , until she knew how! to do it like a native Yankee girl ; and,' after all that, she suggested a second course few remarking, "Ke-e-se me some more, eJtnMee-lee-keer'! Anglice American), and the lesson went on un til her awiawnsVseioe rudely awakened them frpni their delicious dream. . . - t ; ',' 'iunuri sroMEjrl' ;" ' ' A writer in ZAppincotea, speaking of Havana society, sayst ! - ? '" ."The ugliness of the women amounts to a vice, and is unredeemed bv- any quality such as sometimes palliates plain ness of festurea.; I have cried aloud for the beautihil Cuban, bat in vain.- X-ani'. assured, 'that she exist-am told, 5Iy dear fellow; Vou 'never ma rw ways, nut i cannot find her. i uear ""a owing t the politScaJ chaos here she his retired from public ' butJ " P toWjKi: she will' go to the carnival and the opera. T in warned not to expect hex at the ball inl onso a mmor at tbe Spanish Clubi and certainly it was a timely warning. Fancy a. long ; haH of eolored marble pillars run ning .th " length of i forming arcades balconies on both sides hanging over the streets, and fuU of young men smokin cigarettes ; men parading up and down the hall and quizzing tiro women, who -were all seated two rows of them, hun dreds all together seriously contemplat ing thel male 'procession.; enamelled, powdered, attired in the wealth of the Indies; saying 'nofiiiug, doing- nothing, not smiling -- nor; blinking, just, sitting there an' ! awful -array" of. hideousness. After tW bsni struck up and the dane infr began Zemaiaydlon enough to lose in tlieV ukib the 'hon Ibla impression ' of the ojx'iJitj k- -then , hurried home., At tii c?&$ and , the Carnival it i . --; i ' -,', is not so positr tdfy unendurable, but a handsome face, , r a pretty face, or even an intelligent. . Expressive face I have not seen in a wo Beason of man in Havana ; and at this the year, if ever, Havana is don't condemn them I merely luck." Cuba. I give my tjstjs A7 LIO HT FANTASTIC" IN FI.JI. iji correspondent of a London pa writes.: f per At eight a company of 200Fijins per rmed one-, of their stranire dances bv ii Jorch-light. These people, -with their faces blackened in a great variety of hide ous patterns, and their bodies decked with leaves, branches and tapa in a very grotesque manner; .formed themselves into a compact company, with an orchest ral party and master of ceremonies in the center. . The music began with a sharp clapping of hands, accompanying a meas ured, monotonous song in perfect time. Then those composing the outer edge of the company formed themselves' into a wide circle round the orchestra, and went through a series of most extraordinary an ties, shouting and gesticulating, and giving the circle a constantly revolving motion. But however eccentric the mo tions were, they were all performed in exact time by every member of the party, and the cadence of the hand-clapping was never lost. Sometimes arms were advanced to their fullest extension, and sometimes they were swung wildly around. Then the men would stop with an extravagantly ludicrous wriggling motion, which affected all their members. You had no sooner determined that they were going to tie themselves in so many knots than you changed your opinion and felt sure they were about to stand on their heads ; yet neither feat was actually per formed. The light from the coooanut leaf torches fell upon the figures with a strangely weird effect. "When the dance neared its end the outer circle closed up on the central body ; the shouting and gesticulating became more wild and inar ticulate, until with one last effort there was a prodigious yell of Wa-oo !' at the very top of the voice, and exhausted nature demanded rest." JL H EX 8 A TIOJfA I, KOHBE1CY JTJT PA.XI8. A few mornings-since, says an Jnglish paper, a sensational robbery was com mitted,, of that bold but patient and thoughtful type which we are beginning to recognize as the American style. A M. Delapierre, money changer on the Boulevard de la Madeleine, joins to this business a trade inexpensive nick-nacks. Nearly every day for the last six months an American has made small purchases in the shop. With the ease and volu bility of his pleasant race, this gentleman had fallen into a habit of exchanging long gossips with M. Delapierre, who looked on him as one of his best cus tomers.. , The other morning the Amer ican arrived as usual with a friend. M. Delapierre had just taken out a bag of money and valuables, whinh he placed in the window while taUdncr. There is. of course, a money changer s grating be tween it and the shop. Presently entered a third person, who bought a silver tea pot, which the assistant packed up and carried to the address given. When he had gone the American-produced a claw, such as gas globes are set upon, and said carelessly to the moneychanger, "I wish yon would see if you have a glass to fit this claw." M. Delapierre went with him into the back shop and sought a globe to match, leaving the friend alone. It appears that he immediately opened the grating, seized the' little bag of valuables, and called out, " Haven't you found a glass yet ?" The American came back, chose some small articles to be sent home, and then went off quietly wito ins companion. Not for half an hour afterward did M. Delapierre dis cover his loss, which amounts to 12,000, half of it in bank notes and gold, the rest in checks and negotiable paper. A theft so patiently. concocted,' so auda ciously carried ont, is worthy of notice, lake our own bank forgers, these men had plainly some capital, beside shrewd brain and cold resolution. - They could afford to wait six months and to buy silver tea-pots and trifles of that sort.' ' THE STMraiKO TMBE. One of r the torments, says, a .writer on Australia, to which the traveler is sub jected in the North Australia scrubs is a stinging tree (Utica gigas,) which is very abundant, and ranges in size from a large shrub of thirty feet in height to a small plant measuring only a few inches. Its leaf is. large and , peculiar, from being covered with a short, silvery hair, which, when shaken, emits A fine pungent dust, most irritating to the skin, and nostrils. If touched it causes most acute pain. which is felt for, months afterward a dull, -gnawing pain, , accompanied by a burning sensanon, -particularly in the shoulder and under the arm, where small lumps often arise.; ' Even when the sting has quite died away, - the unwary bush- man is-forcibly reininded of his indis cretion each time that 'the affected part is brought into, contact with water. The fruit is of a pink fleshy color, hanging in clusters, so inviting that a stranger is ir resistibly tempted to pluck it, but seldom more than' ,onoe, for, though the 'raspberry-like berries are harmless in them- "elvesi some contact the leaves' is aunost unavoidable. The blacks are aaid'to eat ihe fruit,1 but for this I can not vouch, though . I have tasted one or two at odd times, and found them very pleasant. ' The worst of this nettle i the tendency it exhibits to shoot up wherever a clearing has been effected. . In passing through the dray tracks cut through the scrub, great caution was necessary to avoid the young plants that cropped up even in a few weeks. I have never known a case of its being fatal to hurnan beings, but I have seen people subjected by it to .great buffering,' ' notably a scientific gentleman, who plucked off a branch and earned it some diet&nae as a curiosity, !i l''""-1 " 1 if" i -III wondering the while what car the pain and numbness in his anr Horses I liave seen die in agony frcra the sting-. the wounded parts becomirig paralyzed; but, strange to say, it does not injure cattle, who dash through the scrubs full of it without Deceiving any damage. This curious anomaly is well known to all bushmen. . "A JtOATt OK TOMBS." ' CoL Forney writes from Borne : Everybody has read about the Ap- pian Way. It was. the great line of com munication between Borne and Southern Italy. Before you reach the old road you see the colossal ruins of the baths of CaracaUa, which occupy the space of nearly a mile, and accommodated 1,600 bathers at a time ; but this is surpassed by the size of the bath of Diocletian, which accommodated 3,200 bathers at time. The baths were the favorite re sorts of the poets and philosophers, and were adorned with porticos and vesti bules for the idle and libraries for the learned ; they were also decorated with the finest objects of art in painting andc sculpture, and placed in the midst of fountains and shaded walks. Along the Appian Way were built the tombs con taining the urns with the ashes of hun dreds and thousands- of Romans who lived and died thousands of years ago. These tombs are temples above ground, built of solid stone walls, inside of which were placed the urns, while outside were carved the beautiful decorations and in scriptions, oftentimes including exquisite statuary to designate the dead. Many of their busts were found centuries after inside, and as you now ride along this still solid road you see the remains of costly sepulchers, with the fragments of their marble memorials and highly wrought statues.. You would think that this road of the tombs would be rather a mourn ful affair, but the Romans had strange notions of death. , Their funerals were jolly feasts, and they liked to have their villas and their merry meetings near the houses of their : departed relations and ancestors. . For miles the relics of the graves extend along the Appian Way. One of the most curious of these sepul chers is the tomb of Cseoelia, Metella, erected sixty-seven years before Christ, to the memory of Casoeila, the Crete, and wife of Crassus. It is a circular tower of massive construction and enormous strength, and has seen many changes. It was a fortress or feudal stronghold in the Middle Ages, and sustained great injury in the sixteenth century when Borne was besieged. To-day it stands in solid and solitary grandeur, as if grimly defying the ravages of another 1,900 years. WHAT 18 LOTELtNESSt It is not in pearl powder, nor in golden hair-dye, nor in jewelry. It cannot be got in a bottle or a box. It is pleasant to be handsome; but all beauty is not in prettiness. There is a higher beauty that makes us love people tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin never did that yet ; though it is pleasing to see fine features. What you are will make your face ever for you in the end, whether nature has made it plain or pretty. Good people are never ill-looking. Whatever their faces may , be, an amiable expression atones for alL If they can be cheerful also no one will love them the less be cause their features are not regular, or because they are too fat, or too thin, too pale, or too dark. Cultivation of the mind adds another charm ' to their faces, and, on the whole, if any girl is desirous of being liked by the many and loved by the one, it is more in her power than she may believe to accomplish that object. Cosmetics will not accomplish it, how ever. Neither will fine dress, though a woman that does not dress becomingly wrongs herself. Forced smiles and affec ted amiability will be of no avail ; but if she can manage to feel kindly to every body, not to be jealous, not to be cross, to be happy if possible, and to encourage contentment; then something will come into her face that will outlast youth's roses, and gain her not. only a husband' but a life-long lover. Tax origin of the American races 'is pretty plainly hinted at by some facts collected by C.-W- Brooks, for seven teen years Japanese Consul at San Fran- cisoo.; Mr. Brooks finds that since 1782 forty-one wrecks of ; Japanese - vessels have been borne upon the coasts of the Sandwich Islands and of America, twenty- eight of them since 1850, and au but twelve of them bearing' human -lives. These " wrecks were , borne east by the Japan current, or as the Orientals call it, the black stream," kuro tiwd. Jap anese navigation , laws since 1630 have favored this course of afiairs by prohibit ing the ship-builders from making going vessels.' When the navigators got blown off into the stream, the heavy sea knocked out the rudders and masts and left them to the mercy of the ocean cur rents, j This accounts for the Mongolism words mingled with the language of the present Pacific coast Indians, and pos sibly for the origin of the aboriginal Tol- tecs and Aztecs. 'A J BpzAXixe of the Brazilian yam, now extensively cultivated in the Gulf States, a correspondent of a Mobile paper writes: "These .potatoes are the best I have ever seen. - They are equally as sweet as the old yam, and on the same land, 'with the same cultivation, wiu maice tuuy one third more than any. variety I ever saw. They are hardy and keep well during the winter, x have also tne rea-sam yam. yellow inside, which is certainly the best early kind to be had. They are fully six weeks earlier than any kind obtainable.' CownSM C&abxb tells a story of a gen- tleman'whd lately, in making a return of his income to the Tax Commissioners, wrote on the paper: " For the last three years my -income -has been ' somewhat ; under 150; in future it will be more pre carious, as the man is dead of whom -1 1 borrowed the money;" ! , , - JECCJEXTXIC - DMSP08AX.8. One ordered his body to be sewn up in a pig's skin ; another wished to be buried in the market quite naked, clothed, as the TnHttn say, with the points of the compass ; another in amber, as the flies, which' cause more wonder in their posi tion than in their rarity of richness ; an other in honey, a disciple of Democritus, Alexander the Great. Another gave his body to. anatomists, saying that nature teaches us to use the bodies of the dead to preserve those of the . living, and that we ought not to honor what she dis honors ; another ordered his body to be thrown into the sea, for the benefit of his wife, who had sworn to dance on it. Diogenes desired to be flung out as dung on the face of the field. ' In a museum, at joanchester, is a lady mummy, prop erly labelled and placed in a clock case, over the glass face of which a veil of white velvet hangs. Bentham, the cele brated jurist, ordered his body to be dis sected and the skeleton afterward put together, clothed, and the whole seated in a diaphanous house on wheels. He is said to be preserved in this condition. with a stick in his hancLin a back room of University College.' Inspired by that sad sight, some witty . fellow produced what he was pleased to call an anagram on the strength of the change of position of a single letter : Jeer my bent ham. The jest is deficient, perhaps in point and polish, but in other respects it is perfect. People have been buried in various positions, with their heads turned to every quarter of the compass, and a world of words have been written in de fense of each position. The advocates of cremation say that one, and not the least, of its advantages consists in its rendering all idle dispute about position unnecessary. Many have been buried standing, sitting and lying lying supine or prone as Diogenes wished to lie in this world turned upside down, that at the time of the general resurrection and restoration he might be found, as flat on his back as a flounder or old BUI Bowling. Seme have desired to be buried "without coffins, , and it seems probable; from the absence of the name of this contrivance in the burial service, that at the time of the compilation of formula it was not in common use. The officiating priest, it will be remembered, speaks invariably of the corpse or body. Others buried in coffins or vaults have desired that the lids should not be sol dered down, and that the door of the vault should have the key inside, as if they dreaded the absence, after their long interlude of sleep, of some angel to roll away the stone from the mouth of their sepulcher. Comhill Magazine for March. Tax DIFFICULTIES Of ENGLISH SPELLISQ. The Methodist comments favorably upon the spelling-school . mania, and It is a noteworthy fact, that the En glish language , is the only civilized tongue in which the problem of spelling offers any difficulties. JThe French, with its peculiar sounds and silent letters, appears hard to a stranger; but the Cor respondence of sounds to combinations of letters is . fixed,' and. the rules once learned, the' pronunciation of the word follows from the writing, and the man ner of the writing from the sound, with out variation. ; In the other languages of Europe, whether of Teutonic or Latin derivation, each letter has its exact value, and mistakes provided the ear be cor rectly trained are impossible. As the countries speaking, these languages must be deprived of the " spelling school, we may congratulate ourselves on having one amusement that is unique. Our language, as to its written forms, must be classified with such primitive tongues as the ancient Asyrianj whose writing has been pronounced the most complicated ever invented, and the Chinese, in which every ; word is represented . by its inde pendent character. " 4 xt is a serious disadvantaee to our complicated and irregular methods that so much time has been consumed in learning to speH. What other people can learn, in a few hours takes up the time of ouTj schools for ' years, and is never completely acquired. v No rules will answer,' but each word must be learned by itself in detail. The time thus spent must, of necessity, be lost from otaer branches of -knowledge. We find it hard to believe that anything can be gained from the retention of the. present forms which win compensate for this loss. A EAMOTX8 CANNON HALL. A cannon ball is preserved in the office (bureau no longer) of , the Revenue Ma rine, in the Treasury Department, in Washington, which , deserves -to beoome historic if cold iron can be said to deserve anything. " It weighs twenty pounds: if our recollect on is correct, and is a plain, rough shot; with an iron ring attached to it In a' storm which occurred "on the coast ol NeW Jersey; many years ago, it i thrown from a mortar, with a line fastened to the ring, and, passing over, fell beyond a ship which, was stranded and m danger of going to pieces. The line was tied to a cable on the shore,' and the shipwrecked people drew this in, and fastened' it' to the vessel.' On this cable a life-car was passed backward and forward from the ship to the shore, by which means 200 lives were saved. The ball was hauled in and retained. . It was subsequently sent to the headquarters of the Revenue Marine Department, where it has since been carefully preserved, and where it' is always regarded with much interest by "people who are in formed of its history. It might have sunk a "seventy-four" and never been heard from. ' lie 1850 the Presbyterian Church of England contained about 78 ' congrega tions ; in i860 the number had risen to 95 ; in 1870 it had reached 117 and in 1874 the number was reported at 147. . :r-, FLEAS ANTHIE8. Mosquitoes buzz-urn friends. ' Early fruit Chinese dates of yester day. . A point any woman can appreciate xromz lace. What is that which, by losing an eye, has only a nose left f A noise. Thb financial pressure is looseninfr. Even the days are not so " short as they were. mm T a . . ... -juova, saia Ueorge Hand, "is an internal transport," the precise defini tion of a canal-boat. a. x-KNNsxiiVAHiA breach, or promise case has been settled by the man giving the woman six eords of wood. Maht women who are counted honest steel their petticoats, bone their stays, crib their babies, and even hook their dresses. j : ; , Thb latest dodge of a San Francisco chiropodist is to exhibit a small boy and announce that he has been successfully removed from a corn. Patrick, said the priest, "how much hay did you steal t" " Well, I may as wen corneas to your riverenoe for the whole stack, for I am going after the balance of it to-night. Thb Peruvian government wants to pay off Henry Meiggs' little railroad claim of gl5,000,000 in guano. In reply, Mr. Meiggs remarks to the Peruvian government, "G' wa' now I" A XiTrrms iour-year-oid woke up -very early one morning, and seeing' the full moon from the window, innocently re marked: " I should think it was about time for Dod to take that moon in." A ham who fell into a vat of boiling lard and got out alive, says that it was not an unpleasant sensation after the first moment, but he thought what a mighty queer-shaped doughnut he would make. A coiiOBBD. congregation in Dayton have decided to forgive their clergyman for betting on three-card monte and los ing $90 of festival money. One of the deacons remarked : " We are all human, an' de game is werry exciting." A colored congregation in Dayton have decided to forgive their clergyman for betting on three-card 'monte audi os ing $90 of festival money. One of the the deacons remarked, " We is all human, and de game is werry exciting." A drunken Chinaman, feeling - rich and elated at his progress in American civilization, went through the streets of San Francisco crying, " Hoop-la 1 hoop la ! Me all same as Melican man. Hair cut short and drunk like hell 1" Then you won't lend me that dime novel, eh ?" inquired one boy of another in the post-offioe Saturday. "No, I won't." "All right, then; next time our chimney burnes out . you shan't come into the yard and whoop and hol ler." Thb Brooklyn Eagle says the elegiac bard of the Philadelphia Ledger has es tablished a school of poetry in this country which is doing much to assuage the pangs of final parting. 1 The , last tribute is in memory of the late lamented Thompson: :. Death came at haU-paat nine o'clock. And put out Thompson candle. Thank Heav'n, that give him reat at Uat From this here Beecher acandal. A young married man received his first curtain lecture the other night from his wife, Polly. He calls it " the epistle of Poll to the rum one." He won't be so facetious after awhile. Ephesians the flowing bowl, he may get a rest, but Poll will lay the law down to him every time he gets Titus a brick. On Saturday night two men got into a wordy controversy, which waxed quite hot, and finally one of them challenged the other to a square fight. The chal lenged party filibustered around and en deavored to avoid committing himself on this issue, but finally, pressed by the other, he positively refused to "fight. " Not that I'm any coward," he said, "or that I'm .afraid of you, but I was allers an unlucky man in a fight." A UTOXATlSHr. , The subject of crime and automatism, or the moral responsibility of great criminals, receives careful and skill ful treatment at the hands of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in a recent mag azine article. The discussion turns upon the question whether ' the . quality of crime can be recognized and provided for in some measure in the, laws. If the principle of automatism can be scienti fically established, its practical applica tion must " eventually follow. It wfll then become the duty of scientific men. in specific cases, to ascertain in what de gree, if at all, a murderer has been con trolled by inherited instincts or auto matic passions and impulses; and as the argument proceeds on the basis that most wanton criminals are automatons, medi cal officers wul become necessary ad juncts of every court. When this new order of things is arranged, each crim inal, instead of . pleading mitigating cir cumstahees, . wiU expose the; foulness and -. blackness of his heart to the best possible advantage, and seek to, prove himself an automaton beyond peradven- fore. It is announced a an interesting fact that for $1,000 a man can buy a ticket that will carry him around the globe. This seems like useless extravagance, when, if he will stand still, the. globe itself will carry him around the same distance in twenty-four hours for noth ing. ' - Thb San Francisco Call, under the head of "Personal, "publishes the follow ing touching notice: " Notice I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife, Maria A. Charnay, she hav ing put me but of the house. Antoine Charnay," ' ' ; i ,,' Thb St. Louis Globe gives a new word Shot-gunned." . . BUSINES3 CARDS JOHN CORNER, ' AND - Exchange Office, ALBANY, OBEGON. Depoaita reoetred (abject to eheck at right. Interest allowed on time deponlte in coin. Exchange on Portland, San Francisco 'and New xorK tor aaie at lowest rates. Collections made and promptly remitted. Befera to H. W. Corbett, Henry Failing. W. 8, iadfl Banking hours from. 8 a. m. to p. m. Albany, Feb. X, 1874. 22rg J. W. BALDWIN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Will practice in all the Courts in the Second, Third and Fourth Judicial Districts, in the SupVsme Court of Oregon, and in the U. 8. District and Circuit uourta. Office in Parrish brick lup-etairs). in office wn, pied by the late X. H. Cranor, First street, Albany, wnifuu. - tOLDYO D. B RICE, M. D., " SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. Office, First-st., Setteeen ferry and Washington. Residence, Third street, two blocks below or east or Methodist Uhurch, Albany, Oregon. v6n0 J. C. POWELTj. Ii. FLYNN. POWELL & FLTNN, Attorney ana Counselors at Law, - AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY, lj. Flinn, Notary Public), Albany, Oregon. Coll no tions and conveyances promptly attended to. Albany Book Store. JNO. FOSHAY, Dealer in Miscellaneous Books, School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Fancy Articles, Ac. Books imported to order at shortest possible no. ice. veoau DR. GEO. W. GRAY, Z E 1ST T I S T Albany, Oregon. Office in Parriah Brick Block, corner First and rerry streets. . Residence, corner Fifth and Ferry streets. Office hoars from 8 to 12 o'clock a. m. and 1 to 5 o'clock p. m. 18t8 Epizootics Distanced. THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES, And is flourishing like a green bay tree. Thankful for peat favors, and wishing to merit the continu ance of the same, the BAY TEAK will always be reaay, ana easily louna, te ao any naming witnin me city limits, lor a reasonable compensation. I Delivery of goods a specialty. 30t5 A. N. ARNOLD, Proprietor. W. C. TWEEDALE, Dealer in Groceries, ProTisions, Toteo, Cigars, Cutlery, C rockery, and Wood ana Willow Ware, Albany, Obeoon. XT Call and see him. MtS The lYletzler Chair X Can be had at the following places : Harrtaburir ...Sam May Junction City., ..Smith Brasaeld ......Kirk k Hume J. M. Morgan i.l. Brown Drownsviue.... Halsey.... Seio Albany.. Graf A Collar A full supply can also be obtained at my old shop on sirs street, juoany, uregon. J. St. BIHLISB. H. J. BOTOHTON, M. D., GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, and late member of BelleToe Hospital Medical College, New York. umce m a. uarotnen bany. Oregon. k Co.'a Drug Store, Al Piles!PiIes! Why aay this damaging and troublesome com plaint cannot be cured, when so many evidences of aucoeas miRnt oe piaoea Before yoa every day cures of supposed houeless cases f Your nbvsiclsn informs you that the longer you allow the complaint to exi-l. you lessen your c nances Tor relief. JSx- ptnenet Ao taught thittn all aura. . A. Carotliers &Co.'s Pile PiM Ointment Are all they are recommended to be. Will cure Chronic, Blind and Bleeding Piles in a very short time, and are emnenimt to . This preparation is sent by mail or express to any pouit wim in we unitea etstes at vi.au per pacsage, Address 37 vB L.A1VU tULim & Box 33, Alsbany. Oregon. JOHN SCHMEER, DEAIJEB IN Groceries anil Provisions, ALBANY, OREGON, Has just opened his new grocery establishment, on Corner of Ellsworth and First Streets, With a fresh stock of Groceries, Provision, Candies, Cigars. Tobacco. Ao.. to which .he Invite, the atten tion ox our ciusens. In connection with the store he will keen a Bakerv. aqd will always have ou hand a full supply of fresh presa, v;racaers, sc. ; ,. ,.. .. .... ,; I-W- call and see me. ... . . .. JOHN rCHMEEB. February 18 . i '44 v The Old Stove Depot John Briggs, Dealer in Coot, Parlor anil Box Stores J i I; OF THE BEST. PATTERNS. AL8Q Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Warej And the usual assortment of Furnishing Goods to be obtained in a Tin Store. ; .. Bepairs neatly and promptly executed on reason able terms. . '5... r .-.! - ..: 1. Short Reckoning Make Long Friends. ' ' Front Stbkxt, Axbaht. ' Dec 6, 1874. . A. WHEEELEB, C. P. ROUGE. ' O. B. WHEELER. A. WHEELER & CO., , . SHEDD, 011EG0IT. M ESC H A JTT S T " Dealers In Merchandise and Produce. A good Maortment of all kinds at Goods always in stor at lowest market rates. .,,!.. Jf"!''" ot Wagons, Grain DriUe, Cider MilU, Churns, Ac fco. -7 SH paid lot WHEAT, OATS, POBK. BUT TS R Pyvifl immmL VA AW. GAMBLE, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, Etc Office on First St., over Weed's Grocery Store Residence ovnosite late residence of John C. denhail, near the Foundry, First street, Albany. octooer xi, lavs. Webfoot Market! CHARLES WILSON Hiring leased the Webfoot Market, on First atreer, adjoining Oradwohl'a, respectfully aska a share of the public patronage. The market will be kept con stantly supplied with all kinds of fresh meats. Call, and aee. Sr The highest cash pries psid for Hides. CHA :hables WILSOX. . Albany, August U, 1874. GEO. B. HELM, Attorney asi Counsellor at Law u ALBANY, OREGON, Will practice io all the Courts of this State. Offloe ia Fox's Brick Building (up-stalra), Firsts stfeet. Bt7 ALBANY Milry anil IlacMn " A. F. CHERRY, Proprietor, ALBANY, OREGON, - Manufactures Steam Engines,, Flour and Saw Mill Machinery, WooforllDE&AiTicnltiiralMacliiiisrye, , And all kinds of Iron and Brass Castings. Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds of machinery. . 41r3 A. CAItOTIIEltS & CO., DEAIiERS TS Drugs, Chemicals,, Oils. Paints, Dyes. Class, Lamps, Etc- AD the popular PATENT MEDICINES, CIGARS, TOBACCO. NOTIONS, PERFUMERY, And TOILET GOODS Particular care and promptness siren physiciana" prescriptions and family recipe. A. CAilUlUKH cu. Albany, Oregon. 4tS GO TO THE BEE-HIVE STORE L V TO BUT - Groceries, Provisions, Notions, Cheap for Cash E Conntry Produce of All Kinds BmuMl- For Merchandise or Cash, This is the p'aca to get the Best Bargains Erer Offered la Albany. Parties will always do well to call and for thenw les. H. WKBD. First Street. Albany, Oregoru. 82v MEXICAN Mustang ';, Liniment Was nrst known in America. Tta merffs . well known throughout the habiimhl wi w.T ' the oldest and beat record of mnj Liniment la the world. From the million, upon million, of bottles sold not a single complsiut has eer reached ua. Am aHesJina; andPaio-Subluing Liniment it has nov BENEFICIAL TO MAS AND BEAR1V Sold by all Druggists. . S.T.--I8B Y OLD Homestead Tonic Plantation Bitters . Irm lan"I' ""an Sweet Fug. etoj also Tamarinds. Dates. Prunes snd J..r,i. preaerred in a sumcient quantity (only of thT.MVTj awjr relieve and cure the following oomnlaiuts Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaint lili J Appetite, Headache, Bilioua AtUoks, KiimT!.! Ague, Bummer Complaints. Sour Btomach. PalniC. tion of the Heart. General Debilitv. m speciaU adapted as a remedy tot the diseases tn. wmcn - WOMEiJ Are subjected: and as a tonic for th Am w..v.. andDebiUtated.havenoeonal. n . " tended a S Temperance Tonio or Bitters, to hsT used a srmedieiBe only, and always according to, dbwetiona. SOId BT AXJj FIMT-CI.AS8 DbTJOOISTS BROOM FACTORY. Who manufactured the first good Broom trerv nude in Albany, has returned iroa California, sad kwsted permanently ia this city, where b. haa agaia oommenosd tno manufaoture of ail kindsof Brooms, Brushes, TFlsps; c. at his fsotory on JIRST bttitt '1. . Metaler old stsno ad, east of MamMiiia Mi'ila. wwi " 0""IIa Tr.To'flSmr1 fi- th" Ulbanv, Oct. !. 1874. . . SELD ' ' W 5,1 - . f i 1 i t I : '.J r. a