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BBLBHED EVERY FRIDAY, SY COLL. TANCLEVE, N THE REGISTER BUILDING, Comer Ferry and First Street. TERMS IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year One cony, six months To clnbs of twenty, each copy t2 no 1 ."50 2 00 ou Bto ,oi ion cents. !uoHertlers outside of l.itm county will 1ms narjred 30 cents extra 2 70 for the year i J8 tbo amonnl of pontage per annum which, we are. required to pay on each paper mailed by us. Ax lit for the Itetelslei-. Tbe following named eentlemen are author !'cc to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the RmrsTDH in the localities mentioned : Messrs. Kirk Ji Hum.' Robert Glass IV. P. Smith..... O. P. Totnnkin . H. Clauehion A. Wheeler A Co Messrs. Smith A Brasneld J. B. Irvine... . Thos. If. Kej-noldu Ilrownsville. ..Crawfordsville. tlalsoy. Hnrrislmi-i Ijelmnoii. Sliedd. Junction City. ...... Seib. Salem. FRIDAY... FEBRUARY 10, 1S77. TIILUfTS SUXsaiXE AFTEH RAIX. There's sunshine after rain, dear friends, Tliere sunshine after rain : And t"vtHht comes when darkness ends, To usher day jiin ; Snrtn?; bringVto life the sleeping grain. And varied flowers gay ; And hope, when all is grief and pain, Shines o'er the heart's highway. Then never let the fiend dispair, Enchain our troubled mind : -Xor let the cloud of bitter care. The soul's, brieht mission blind ! For If life's morn he dark and drear, By gloomy ilia o'ereast, A glowing noontide, bright and clear. May cancel troubles past ! The meads grow richer for the storm, And sweeter smell the flowers : And why not man receive the charm From e'en embittered hours ? Good with the evil ever blends. Weeds grew among the grain, "While there U love tor all, dear friends, ,Aud sunshine after rain. Jhe Miser's Clock. Nomina ly we were the heirs, Ethel and I, of r&e miserly, vicious nncle, Triptolemus Forbes, who lived and died in Oversea sn.l was buried without a tear. The' only' good word ever said for him was ii .commemoration ot his exit, in consequent ot which we tot k possession of the tgl oomy old homestead that stood midway between the town hall and the court-h oi xe in the pretty little village crowning Vhe head ot one of the' most romantic. f many bays that dent the coast ot" .Massachusetts. With all my good fottunt', J am inclined to quarrel with even the tvite if credit afforded Triptolemns Forbes, in the apposition that we enjoy atyMr.-fpetency - acquired from him; I hold that we are really and actually heirs of am old Dutch clock, with a dinsv dial. a"d a trrimv 'Mekpd na.se. on the ttD of which an automaton shoe-maker Ues vts a Ditik-and-bUie wife with a stroke foT every unit of the hours that adorn the r face. Ethel' uncle might have aecu' r mutated twenty millions, instead ot the - modest hundred thousand he left, but - we, probably, would not have been where the lawyer's letter found us had - it not been for the clock. Wo were very poor, red need to straits ito terrible that only crime seemed to s. stand between ns and starvation, when one morning, the infrequent postman called on ns with a portentious looking missive, addressed to James Mountfbrd Tracy, Esq., No. 229 Marlow Street, City. With the address was the hand--aomely lithographed card of a legal firm -on Broadway, and I was too perfectly impressed with the idea that it was a citation into court to answer the de mands ot some irate creditor, to. break he envelope; Ethel, however, weak woman though she was, had the nerve I lacked, and taking the letter, tore it -open and ran her eyes over the contents. I noticed her growing paler and paler as ehe proceeded, and presently she dropped the written, page and sanfc back in her chair without a word. Picking it op my despondency rapidly changed into exultation as I now read Slaitefees & Makefiles, attorneys, etc., had pleasure in soriowfolly informing Mr. Tracy that his wife's uncle, Trip tolemus Forbes, Esq., ot Oversea, was lately deceased and no will appearing or beipg in probable existence, they con gratulated Mr. Tracy that his wife was heir to the Oversea estate, real and personal, which was supposed to be in existence, though ot what nature Make fees & Makefees were unable to state, as their correspondents at Boston had not been explicit in their advices of the 8th ot October and subsequent dates. They have been making strenuous ef forts for over three months to find tlie lieirs and were delighted that they had succeeded, and it Mr. Tracy called at their office at his earliest convenience they would be, Bir, his meet obedient servants. At the lawyer's office I was received by Mr. I-eoiudas aiaketees, who an nounced himself as testatory and general contract member of the firm, and bowed me into bis diminutive but neatly fur dished den. Ah ? Tracy, heirs to Forbes," he said, striking into the heart, of business at once ; "no question about the identi ty, I suppose? I mean yon can estab lish the fact of Mrs. Tracy's being Ethel Forbes, only child of Poultney and only blood relative ot Triptolemus Forbes, late deceased ?" I bad, of course expected this, and was armed with rescript from, the bap tismal register, certificate ot vaccination, marriage lines, and a multitude ot per sonal references. " Very good, Mr. Forbes," said" Mr, Leonidas, alter examination. "1 ap prehend no difficulty in putting yon in immediate possession. A month at the farthest, wilLsee that consumma tion." ; I am afrad that I cut the interview impolitely short in my anxiety to make Ethel a sharer in the extent of my joy. Mr, Leonidaj knew that thousands . upon ihcisandr of dollars in govern ment bones had gone into the honse, and could fiud no trace of 'any having gone out; the coin discovered was the result ot cashing some oi me cupouo, and at the end of a whole month's over hauling of the house, we all agreed that tlie old miser's wealth was stowed away out of doors, or that the myriads of rats which infested the premises were the only gaiueis by old Forbes' parsimony. Mr. Leonidas paid us his last visit, the clerk returned to his perch, and Ethel and 1 were left alone to congrat ulate ourselves that, in any view, we had considerably bettered our situation; we had house and grounds of our own, and a very tidy sum of money iu hand after all our debts were paid. Nearly a year rolled around as quiet, commonnlace and hannilv with us as the heart could wish. Hut with the setting in of Winter Ethel grew ill, and when January came we were obliged to have some one at her side continually. Every other night the duty ot watching devolved ou mo. I spent the hours when she slept sitting before the great old open fire-place m the common room. Ethel lying in the adjoining chamber so that I could see her through the open door and hear her slightest move. Her illness and my own la k of frugality had somewhat reduced our stock of money, and I had already taken the preliminary stops towards mortgaging the old homestead, and only waited her convalescence to conclude the operation. Night after night I sat watching the forms and scene. that pictured them. ' selves in the glowing wood-coals piled j beneath the great andirons, and thought and pondered on the mystery ot old Forbes' money. I was convinced that it could not have passed out of existence so absolutely as to leave no shadow nor fragment remaining; but in reply to constant query: "What could have become of it?" the wood fire only shot its hickory sparks further out on the hearth, and tho old clock ticked sol emnly and monotonously along iu its accustomed corner. Though-1 had looked the clock all over back, front, top, bottom, outside and inside many a time since I have been master at Oversea, it never struck me that there was anything nnusnal about it except the little mechanical figure on top, which indulged in angu lar antics with every musical ring of the mellow hour bell, until towards the morning of January 25th I caught my self saying in whimsical sleepiness, "Is it seven or sixteen minutes past seven?" and somehow the prompting figures seemed to stand out plainer than I had ever seen them before. They were only a cramped and brownish figure "7," which was inscribed c'ose to the numeral IX, and a like " 16" close to the numeral V. It happened to bo exactly a quarter of five, and the scanty hands just placed their points on the figures. Did you ever have some slight, un meaning, nonsensical idea drop into your mind, and lodge and annoy you with the persistency of a cinder in your eye? Well, that seven to sixteen clung to me with like ridiculous pertinacity. I All day I saw it, and heard it; next night 1 dreamed -of it, and after beirg haunted by the crippled "7" and crab e.i "16" tor a week, I told Ethel of it; am"! it nearly worried the life out of the p-oo." sick creature, for it seemed to ab sorb her thoughts as completely as it had mine. i convinced myself that the figures wero somehow connected with the miss ing fbvtnne, and Isevened and sixteened everyth ing to which that mathematical combination could be applied. I added, subtracted and multiplied, and applied my results to everything about the place, from the boards in the floor to tho trees in tlie orchard. Ethel watched me, deeply interested amused, but said nothing in aid orcriti cisim, until one day she suggested that maybe I was going wrong altogether. "Has it not occurred to you," she asked, "to take the numbers on the flock case into consideration ? May not the singularity of their arrangement 1-nvc s. mething to do with the solution of thtf mystery?" " , ' ft Tvin i":!l beheve me, I heard that clock say "sevC" by nine," as distinctly as 1 couid ever iier si"B " ,UJ Won Vtf n?na anrl ciriion 1? five, of course it was, and I went to adding counting with renewed vigor, beginning," with my usual starting point, the fire place. I did not believe there was any single brick there I had not touched, but mechanically began with the first methodical arrangement that presented itselfl It was a deep, cavernous affair, with a capacity for a full cord ot wood, such as distinguished the general house keeping of our ancestors; its two sides were built, each of fifteen bricks from front to back and, and nineteen bricks from hearth to mantel. The back ran into a chimney, and no count could be made ot its construction, and, for analo gous cause the hearth was not taken into account To the sides, fbr these obvious reasons, I applied myself, and naturally began with the sides next to the clock. Sixteen only could be count ed up or down and I counted np; then five from the front, and around the brick, at the juncture of the lines firm and solid, with the mortar around it undisturbed. ' After several futile en deavors I found that sixteen by five from top and front indicated a loose brick, below the ordinary line of coal and ashes, I removed it with trembling agitation. I searched the cavity it left, and found nothing but a handful of loose fragments of mortar, "which had filled the broken inner corner. In my disappointment I - Hung the brick into the fire with an emphasis that nearly smothered me - with smoke and ashes. ; " : ' ' v ' The old clock was saying, "Don't get mad !" and I half made up my mind to smash it, for its aggravating and insinu ating tone; but Ethel happened to make the same remark, and as I could ' not ose them both alike I did not proceed to extremities, but simply kissed, her and stopped the clock. But my passion had made tho long sought solution possible, for .seven by nine, from top and front again, was loose and easily removed. I suppose I had tried and pried that identical one fifty times before, instigated by the tact that the mortar between it and its neighbors was more deeply grooved than almost any other in sight, but, heretofore, it had been apparently one of the solidest in the side ; now it yield ed to the slightest pull. When it came entirely out I discovered that it was only half a brick, with an ingeniously fitted iron back, provided with a staple in which a bolt had evidently played. The bolt dropped when the first brick was loosened, and sprung into the staple when the connecting rod's base was pressed back by the lower brick and fragments of mortar. I knew by the coincidence of the clew and results that I was on the eve of fortune, but. dared nn nrnKMil tnrtlier alone. "There were. good and sufficient reasons enough oc-' curring to me why further investigation should be continued in tlie presence of spectators. It was too late to proceed that night, so I kept watch and vigil until the village was astir again. By nine oclock the next mom, the local lawyer, a mason, carpenter and constable had answered my summons and we carefully examined the chimney, within and without. The house had been so cunningly constructed that the chimney apparently flush with the mam wall, had room for a cavity on the right hand side, more than a foot wiler than the wall was at its jnnctnr? with the wall into which it rail, and instead ot being of a single four brick thick, it was double that, with a space of eight inches between. We did not stand on ceremony in break ing through the inner wall and drag ging out an iron case eight inches wide, two feet long, and three feet deep, sup plied on the end next to the side of the tire place, with a slit like those in the ends of letter boxes, only considerably larger, which was exactly opposite to brick number seven by nine. It was the old miser's repository, constructed on the principle of a child's bank, to receive all but give up nothing until broken into by force. A more careful device could not be conceived to guard its contents, for we had to call in the Tillage b'acksmith to enable us to pen etrate to its hoarded wealth. Besides gold bonds ai'd notes, it contained Trip tolemns Forbes will, devising all he died possessed of to Ethel, as the one reparation m his power to make for the evil ho had exercised towards her father. In deference to the opinions of my neighbors I have caused a costly stone to be erected to the memory of Ethel's uncle ; but in my heart there is a proud er monument, with a more grateful in scription, raised to the honor of that o'd Dutch clock, for from it really descend ed the inheritance we enjoy. Captive of the Mnnx for Mnc Tears-A ltouRBce In Keal Uf Yesterday afternoon a yonng girl, aged about 17, arrived at the Union Depot, by Chicago express, on her w:iy to relatives at Lock port. Her name is Lizzie Smith, and she has been captive to a tribe of the Sioux who live north of the Black Hills, for nearly nine years. Her father resided in Philadelphia, and was engaged in a dry goods store. She and other members of the. family wero visiting in Western Iowa, when the Sioux raided the place, capturing her and others, and killing her little broth er. She was taken to their hunting grounds, and was, she says, treated well generally, but mistreated at times, be cause of her inability to learn their lan guage. Another girl a year or two her senior, was captured with her, and the two, by oonversing together, succeeded in retaining their knowledge of the En glish tongue. Her companion was a Miss Stewart, who was rescued at the same time and sent to her friends at Omaha. Miss Smith states thai a party of fi ve trappers discovered them some weeks since and ersuaded them to make an escape. This they consented to do, and tho party, stealing Indian ponies, left for the white man's country They were pursued tour days by the Sioux, but got oil', and in time to reach Rock Springs, on the IT. P. road. There they were supplied with clothing by their rescuers, Messrs. Welsh, Schwartz, Wolf, Botmeyer and one other whose name Miss Smith cannot recail. The railway company passed i her via Chicago, boarding her in transit ano! if11".2! "er w,th the greatest kind ness The agent of the Pennsylvania Hallway did similarly here, and the young woman w? to er uncle at Lockport, on the 4:3(5 tr2n yesterday afternoon. Miss Smith has bee"1 "O lo"R with the Indians that she has acq'.i,'e a few of their peculiarities, and to the reporter seemed to have some of the prominent features of the savages. She is intelligent, considering her disadvan tages, and quite prepossessing in appear ance, notwithstanding her bronzed com plexion. Pittsburg (Pa.) Chronicle. Substitute for Raij. Mr. Paraf ha9 to a certain extent, solved the prob lem of artificial irrigation by the dis covery of a method of doing without rain. His plan is to apply-calcicum chloride, which has a powerful affinity fbr moisture, and absorbs a large quan. tity from the atmosphere. From actu al experiments he has found that it will produce irrigation more 'efficiently and cheaper than any other artificial method. One application will, he states, produce abundant moisture tor three days, when the same amount of water, applied in the ordinary way, would evaporate in an hour. The inventor, believes, that bis way is cheaper than canal irrigation, and that not only by its use two blades of gass will be produced where only one is now, but that it will make it pos sible to have fields, meadows, grass and prosperity where now there is nothing but sand and desert waste. Ginger Snaps. 1 cup New Orleans molasses, 1 cup of sugary 1 cup - butter, 1 large spoonful of soda dissolved in a little boiling water, 2 spoonfuls cinna mon, one of; ginger. Roll as stiff as possible with flour ; cut thin and bake ia a quick oven. There are no better ginger snaps than these.. HOTEL CAKS. Another Grand Improvement to be made on the "Pioneer" i.lne. Description of the Superb Cars now be tas Constructed. For some time we have heard hints of a line ot hotel cars for the Omaha and California line of the Chicago & North-Western liailway. When asked about their cars, the officers have uni formly evaded a direct reply. Our "re portorial instiucts" taught us to investi gate for ourselves. We haye done so, and are now enab'ed to state positively that such a line will be started in the early spring, and that the cars are now being built. The fact will no longer be a secret after this day's paper gets be fore the public. Four of the most magnificent hotel cars that have been built anyvshere are now. being constructed by the Pullman Pa 'ace tar Company expressly fir this line. -' These cars will be sixty-six feet long, ten teet wide, and ten feet high, with twelve sections, one drawing-room (wiih table room for six persons), and one state room, besides the kitchen, china closet, dressing room, etc. The interior will be finished with black and white walnut, mahogany, French ash, and cur'ed maple, the place of the usual head-lining being til lei 1 in with foreign polished woods ; the panels between the windows will be of California laurel and other California woods ; the lamp fix tures, window fasteninsrs, door hard ware, etc., will be of triple plated silver. The upholstery of the seats is to be of rich but plain reps, corresponding and harmonizing with the wood finished of the sides and roof of the cars. Between each set of seats is space for a table that will accommodate four persons comfort ably, but as a rule are not expected to seat more than t wo persons. The glass and chinaware for the tables are now being made at Dresden, Germany, from patterns selected from the Royal Dres deu exhibit that was at the Centennial Exposition and so greatly admired. Each piece of silver-ware and china ware will have tho monogram of the Chicago & North-Western road marked theren. The kitchens of the cars will le so arranged that no fumes from the cooking viands can reach the occupants ot the berths. On each car will be a stewtrd, t wo ciHks, tliree waiters, and a chambermaid to wait upon lady pat rons. It is the intention ot the company to furnish the best meals that money can bny, and ch ice wines and cigars wid be attainable by those desiring those luxuries. Thrse hotel cars will leave Chicago on the "California Express," and run through to the Missouri river. On the west-hound train, dinner, supjer and break&st will be served. Thus passen gers bound in either direction will be enabled to have all their meals en route and yet not leave their palatial travel ing parlor. The only objection that has ever been raised against the use of hotel cars has been connected with the odors of the kitchen. As we said before, this, in these cars, will be entirely obviated ; no person, no matter how particular he or she may be, will have trause to make any objections on this score. In the dining car you merely get your meals, and as soon as you are through eating you are shoved out and started for the coach or sleeper, so as to make room tor some other traveler who desires your place. While in' these hotel ears your berth wiil be secured through, you will own it absolutely for the length or your trip, and it will be your own for loung ing, sitting, s'eeping, and eating pur poses, as much as vwur own house. As it is not generally known, dining cars are never inn over the entire length of any route ; they are taken on and set off of the train at stated meal times, whie these hotel cars will be made a part ot the train and run through in the same way as the regu'ar sleeping -car. On the admirable steel rail that is now laid on theChicago & Northwes tern Railway, these elegant, sixteen- wheeled hotel cars will ride as easy and with as little noise or oscillation as a balloon that floats serenely through the sir; and we believe it will be found to bo a result that thousands will flock to this "Pioneer Line," who have hitherto gone-by some other route. With these and other improvements the people are very largely interested and we believe will join with us in con gratulating the progressive management ot this great line in this its most ad. vanced step ; and unite with ns in say big, tho Chicago & North. Western lias J become the -foremost . road . in all the These hotel ars will be placed in ser. vice about Marcfi 1st, 1877. Republi can, Dec. 22, 1870. Theodore Ilerren. of Salem, killed" twenty-five teal ducks at one 6hot last week. - - Robert Cameron is to have a sevea mile ditch dug in Jackson county to aid his mining enterprises. . Dill Roberts of the Cbehalcm has been arrested for shooting Wm. Van derpool in the back of the head. The Astorian say a lady in Oregon City has given birth to five children in less than two years. Verily Oregon City is a great place. Warden & Knott, arrested in Jack sonville for shooting; a Chinaman, have i: ....... oeen acquitted, notwithstanding the lat ter admitted firing the fatal shot. Engineer Iloouett last week ran his train from Celiro to The Dalles, a dis tance of fourteen miles, in fifteen min utes, there ' being many curves on the route and three miles of bridging. The Editor of the .Dalles Tribune says he was intimidated into voting for a person at the recent election by a gal vanie battery of bewitching smiles of some young ladies ; he's an old man too, : - 'V ' : :. AMEIUCA38 III'MOR. There seems to be a fatality among the supremely rich men this year. We are not feeling well, ourselves Wash ington Nation. V ; Beautiful sentiment by a milkman; While the ship of State is in danger, let every man be at the -pumps." Lou isville Courier-Journal. Queen Victoria is not for war, al though the soldierly are. This shows that the hair-pin is mightier than the sword. New York Herald. Said Jones sweepinsily, "When yon are in Rome do as the Romans do;" and Johnson replied, "When you are in gin do as the Injins do." New York Herald. The grave "of the inventor of the ac- eordeon is nnmarked bv a stone. It ought to have an epitaph. "Hark from the tomb a doleful sound." New York Graphic. By the number of good resolutions about 1877 already adopted, one might suppose the year to be a defunct mem ber of a gilt-edged fire-company. 'Rome Sentinel. ' . When a young man sets out in dead earnest to court a girl, the deferential manner in which he regards her big brother is truly remarkable. Turners Falls Reporter. Business seems to be generally reviv ing. A man went around at the saloons one day last week, trying to trade three palm-leaf fans for ten cents worth of hot Scotch. Rome Sentinel. The leap year has passed,, and that reminds n that it's a blamed sight easier to ask questions than to answer them, especially if you are good look ing and ain t married. at-hmgton Nation. - A large number ot our merchants have figured np their business of, last year, and find that notwithstanding the unparalleled hard times and general de pression of trade, they made nothing. Rockland Courier. Alfred Tennyson wears his hair long and natural. The first time he ever saw a comb, somebody sent him one for a Christmas present, and he thought it was something to scratch his back with. Burlington Hawkeye. An exchange does the Chicago ppople the justice to say tlie great maioritv ot thcrn aro honest. You meet the great majority oftener, because circumstances require. them to bo constantly in motion. Brooklyn Argus. Seventeen thousand Towans spent nearly 2,000.000 at the Centennial. And now they are sitting around in Iowa complaining that there is no money in the .State. Singular where all the money has gone. Burlington Hawkeye. In a composition written by a miss of fourteen, a pupil in one of our public schools, occurs the following passage: "Sunrise. is the front door of the day, and sunset the back door.'' This indi cates talent. Brooklyn Argus. We have been looking fbr it, and here it is: "A South Bend hen has laid an egg inscriljed, War.' " Read ''war" backward and you will have the true character of that egg. The hen com menced at the wrong end to spell. Norristown Herald." The London Saturday Review says that "Girls are by nature more inclined to untruthfulness than boys." This as sertion may be true as far as Eng land is concerned, but in this country its falsity is- proved by the fact that more boys than girls become editors of Democratic papers., A Colorado '59-er on the Black mils. The Longmont (Colo.) JPrcss says : 31 r. Gilbert Tower who settled in this country in 1859, has returned from the Black Hills country, and according to his description it must be a good mining and pastoral region. The quartz ore is rich with free gold in the vicinity ot Dead wood and Custer. At Galena, on the Bear Butte river, silver abounds. Three quartz mills were there, and one of them was running and pSying well. Several arastras were in operation dur ing the season, giving good results. Very few leads were taken until late in the season. Hard wood, mich as oak, elm and birch, abound in places. The character and business ot the country reminds him of the early settlement of Colorado; and it is his opini -n that it will bo a permanent -mining country. It is a first-rate stock country, and ev erything can bo raised that is raised here, with the 'exception perhaps, of corn. Oats that lie sowed did well. In regard to the Indians, Mr.. Tower says that all tho depredations have been committed by the Indians from the Agency, and that the massacre of the Metz family was traced to them. lle also thinks the killing of Fritz, of Sun shine, was done by the scouts belonging to the army. He says that it the gov ernment officers had permitted volun teers to go after them, the Indians would have been cleaned out by the middle of last summer. . Pity is about the meanest wish that one can ofter another. I had rather have a ten-dollar greenback that had been torn in two twice and pasted to gether, than all the pity there is on the upper 6ide of the earth. Pity is noth ing more than a quiet satisfaction that I am a great deal better than you are, and that I intend to keep so. -- Schrtimpt, a milk dealer in New York, was lined $250 and sent to jail for ten days for selling watered milk. The prisoner says he ia going into the whisky business when he gets out, as there is no penalty for selling adulter ated liquors. Whittier, tho poet, thinks $50 a year ought to dress any woman. Certainly. Eve dressed for less than that. But it was before fall set in. A Charleston correspondent doesn't see how Hampton will get out ot the sea of difficulties ho has plunged into. Ho will Wade. - HERE ASD THERE. "In cold weather Cronin is obliged to cover his nose with a horse-blanket," 6ays an Eastern paper, i This may be construed into a personal reflection that Cronin himself may never have observ ed in water ! Cronin stood one ovening in the beautiful, golden beach of the Pacific where rolls the Oregon, and he was sniffing the savory breeze, wlei a jiik on the coast of China sheered offjiot " time to have the captain wit.is oufA.el ican man big foolee." Cheyenne Leader. , The conduct of Cronin, the Oregon elector, in exacting $3,000 down as the price of his journey to Washington with the electoral vote, is in the last decree disgraceful. . Unless we. are mistaken, the three thousand dollars is all he will get. II is character, if he had any; i blasted, and in the future he will l an object ot scorn and contempt. Wada Walla Statesman. ' The introduction of railways in Egypt 4ias proved a great stimulus to the growth of cotton. That portion of the country along the borders of the Nile is admirably adapted to the cultivation of this staple, and its product is of superior quality, much resembling that f the Gulf States. All along the route t.f the railroad line which runs up the val ley of the Nile, cotton plantations and ginning houses have lately sprung up, and the road is already in receipt ot a very flourishing traffic from this source. By about the middle ot nxt May the rmblic will have seen th the r - present threeient postage stamp, ! begin to get accustomed to -he that i red, or possibly a new lii t. 1 ' change has been rendered ncc-"- h -stamp-washers take of! the i y ' lation without acid or alkali and u -stamp again. A series of exjH-rm- t just completed convinces the Pta ' partment that green is the poorest chr to be found. With a change of cdr there will be a change of design. The medallion head of Washington will t retained, but it will lie relieved by ao open scroll of white, and tlie ktoI work will have a different pattern. If the United States does not dev .' . s. a great trade with the Empire of Hraz;! it will not bo for lack ot e'-couraa mem from Brazil. Another step is heina ta. ken in the direction ot closer relation with this country nnder the ain-pires of Brazilians. It is now proposed io es tablish in the city of New York an agency to be called the Tmerial Bra zilian Bureau. Its object is to bring the Empire of Dom Pedro and v-t re sources before the people of this coun try, and "to invite, stimulate and en courage American merchants, planters and manufacturers to establish in the Empire commercial, agricultural and in dustrial enterprises." John Chapon, a New Orleans wait er, his mother and sister, expect to es tablish themselves among seven heirs to S24.000.000 of Holland g..ld. The si.. -ry is that old James Dubois,- !ire-t ir ot the East India Company, died 1704 worth 1,800,000, and leaving no chil dren. The eccentric old geiitlema'., no doubt to spite too" greedy relatives, pro vided that his heirs should sequin the property only after it had leeu 90 years at compound interest. The centnry passed, no one claimed the money, audit went to the Government. Bnt now the ancient will has been unearthed rom mnsty Government archives, and the New Orleans branch of the arittrrntic Holland Duboises expects to retire from the resturant business. . A man at Fairview, Kentucky, with a craving tor liquor, after-sellino every thing ot value wherewith to buy the stimulant, took hisfew-months-old chi tl and traded it over the bar for a ilru.k ot whisky. The child was afterward redeemed by the mother on payii g for the liquor. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, books only retain their steady value. When friends grow cold, and the converse ot intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered coun ter a nee of better days, and cheer us with 'that .'true friendship that .never de cieved hope or deserted sorrow. A man named Putnam has 1,000 sheep on his ranch, 40 mi'es below Greely, on the South Platte, to which he is feed ng about a ton of hay per day, and he has fifty tons left. He reports snow fourteen inches deep. Colorado will vote on woman suf frage next October. Wolf-hunters in the val ey of r Yellowstone make $300 a month from the wolf skins they take. "Much remains unsung," as the tom cat remarked to the . brickbat when it abruptly cut short his serenade. J. M. Bacon has been confirmed post master at Oregon City. " . "Man proposes " but there are still 31,000 more women than men in Massachusetts.'- - ' Joaquin Miller is trying to find out why an eight-day Clock can't bo evolut ed up to run nine days. The far-seeing man pours water on his front steps so that burglars will slip down and break their necks. V Cassell's Magazine argues that the dark spots on the moon are simply great grazing pastures. Send your cow right along. Those whalemen who were left in the Arctic region won't have to pay any poll-tax "or worry about the Presiden tial question. , CniCKTOf Saiad. Boil 2 chickens, bone, chop fine ; chop as much celery as chicken, or, if you desire, take half celery and half cabbage; boil 10 eggs take the yelks only cream them, add f of a pound ot butter, a little vinegar, mustard, salt, and pepper to suit your taste. : . JOB IRINTI.N3.' I "r -j. ...J -....w.'-r. ?f... When yon rtili Posters. - business Cards. SHI SrUads, Letter Heads Envelopes. Ball Tickets, Programme: Labe.s, Horee Eille-, Circuiar, Pamphlets, or to fact anything in the call at tha ALBANY REG I ST PRINTING HOUSE CORNER FERRY FIRST-STd., ER