The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1868-10-03
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The grain crop of Russia is reported
as an entire failure this season.
The heavy fires in the Sound country,
(W. T. are causing the farmers much
anxiety by driving immense numbers Of
wild animals oat of the forests into the
open lands, who waltz into their sheep
and hogs at a fearful rate.
They have experienced heavy frosts
along the Sound, (W. T.) destroying
late vegetation subject to its ravages.
The latest scientific invention al
n"unccd is one Tor masing water answer
the purpose Of wood and coal in pro-
pelling steam cngines-
All the mills in the lumber trade on
the Sound are reported as running night
and day, and yr, are unable to supply the
demand made upon them.
1t is estimated by competent authori-
ties that the yield of breadstuffs in the
United State. Tor the current year, wilt
be about 365 100000 bushels; more
than the most fruitful year we have ever
had.
Thirty-two pounds instead Of thirty
I FIVE are to constitute bushel of oats in
ST. Louis in future.
Gar Alexander has pledged his Alas
kan money in payment Of a loan from .
Hamburg banking house.
r;ob Na;sb.do,ar f,oya 10 000 Aor
ins to educate poor children on the day
the Luther monument was dedicated.
Fifty dollars will hereafter be charged
to the soldier who loses or disposes Of
tie Springfield breech- loading musket.
Queen Isabella Of Spain, according to
the i'll natured gossips, drinks pint Of
brandy every week day, and a quart on
Sunday.
The revenue Department. has declared
in favor of the adoptiskF of the Tice
metre for the prevention of frauds in
liquor distilleries.
1t takes seven men one week to dust
the great organ in Boston. Their wages
for the week are over 500.
Mr. Parton asks, VIII the coming
man drink wine 2" If he's good Dem
crat he'll prefer whisky
The other day Edward Williams, of
Scranton, Pennsylvania swan 8 miles in
$50 minutes, or % hours.
In Yarmouth, Maine, a town of 2 800
inhabitants, there are 60 persons above
80 years Of age and 129 above TO-
Thad Stevens never was married, and
it is not known that he leaves relative
behind.
Princess Elizabeth of Spain has thirty
six million reals marriage portion.
Small monkeys are the fashionable pets
of fashionable ladies in Paris now.
A brother of the late n. p Willis is
said to bea bootmaker at Melbourne.
The New York Tribune says it IS ru-
nlored that Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
is to be made deacon in Henry Ward
Beecher's church
The Queen asks Parliament to vote
pension of e2 200 per annum to Gen Sir
Robert Napier for his distinguished serv-
ices in Abyssinia.
England has mosquitoes for the first
| time. The little insects find the weather
admirable, and English blood very
wholesome.
An act of the Legislature of Tennes-
see now makes habitual drunkenness .
cause for divorce on the part of either
man or wife.
A large number of dead shad we're
lately picked up on the Connecticut
shoals at Cromwell, Connecticut, killed
by the hot weather.
Fish eggs are an Alaskan dainty. Tho
Indians collect them by sinking pine
branches in the water where the fish
spawn, and eat them raw.
The young gentleman who stands high
est this year on the roll at the Naval
Academy is Midshipman Kelley, ueph-
ew Of Mr.. Barney Williams.
Somebody has paid $500 for million
cancelled postage stamps, collected by
lady of Y,nkers, and she has given the
money to church.
| Russia works energetically sometimes
It is now building railroad from Koursk
to Tagarog, and has 10000 workmen on
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