The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-10-09
Pen and Scissors.

The editors Of two Of the Frisco jour
nails having gone to war, Figaro says OF
them that the editorial bolts hurled by
the belligercnts are of most formid-
able character, resembling gobs of cold
mush.
A new style of fountain pen has been
invented, which can be carried in the
vest pocket and not injure the pen or soil
the pocket, always ready for use, con-
tanning ink enough for twenty hours
writing. What next?
Vice President Colfax and party were
to leave California for the East on We'd
nesday last.
The Detroit Tribune says the assail-
ants Of Grant now come under three
heads: Copperheads, Soreheads and
Leatherheads.
a Chinaman has made his appearance
in San Francisco, who stands six feet
eight inches in height. One of the city
papers recommends him as lamp
lighter.
1t is announced that VIM. Fl. Seward
has accepted the invitation OF Juarez,
and taken his departure from California
to Mexico.
There has been very heavy frost in
Goose Lake Valley, at the upper end,
destroying potatoes, beans and all kinds
of vines.
Advices state that Cunningham and
party recently discovered a copper ledge
forty miles west of the Colorado river.
eighty yards'wlde.
The Democratic papers ridicule Grants
bathing at Long Branch. The Detroit
Adecrtiser accounts for this on the
ground that there is no Democratic pre-
cedent for bathing on record.
The Schuylkill must have been very
dry of late, as Philadelphia paper re
presents the catfish in the Schuylkill a:
swimming about with tin cups in thei
mouths, begging for drink. The flood
reported by telegram must have wrecked
the tin cups
The Petersburg (Va.) Express has dis
covered what, if it had been found out
decade before, would have saved tn
South great deal of trouble. 1t says
$50 far, the Northern Democracy hav
never rendered US the very slightest ser
vice, but they have always been on tn
qati uiue to find out how they could mos
advantageously use US for their own in
tercsted purposes"
The potato crop in England will ia
short of the average-one half the crop
in some localities being diseased.
A telegram from London announce
that Col. Gill has been appointed Cover
nor of New Foundiaud.
Corbitt & Maeleay, of Portland, hav
chartered the bark Aacifae Eiteood, an
1 are loading her with wheat to be take
E direct to Liverpool, the great shippin
a port Of Europe.
e An immense deposit of coal has bee
a found near Boaeman City, in the Ga
/ latin valley. It is near the propose
t route of the Northern Pacific railroad.
S A man named Herman Ball was kille
e by Indians near Diamond City, Montan
. on the 18th September lie had recent
a arrived from Willow Greek, Oregon.
S An E!ko paper complains that thel
s has not been robbery on the Elko roa
$ for three days, and remarks, g sue
il apathy on the part of the knights of ii
o road is really provoking
t It is stated that the Central and Unic
d Pacific Railroads will soon commenc
e running ns-continental express train
O 'swith board and lodging" the train
G leave Alameda and arrive In New Yor
l. in five days.
C A Boston chemist wants ''the gentl
y man who left his stomach for analysis
IS call and take it away. What queer fe
I; lows those Bostonians are
, A Washington correspondent repor
! that Congress at its next session will u
doubtedly be recommended to impose
y tax of one cent per pound on cotton.
A cable telegram says it is estimate
that in the late gale on the coast
- Great Britain and ireland, 120 vesse
= were wrecked, and several hundred Sc
: men injured. This is an unusual nul
Der of vessels to perish in a single storl
: 4 correspondent in Japan says tn
- there is a few miles from Yokohama
- enormous bronze statue, forty feet hig
of noted japanese warrior named Di
lie boots. It was erected in the eleven
is century. It is formed of large plates
id bronze, skilfully joined together, and t
OF storms Of eight centuries have made b
IS, little impression upon it.
Is A frightful case of the immolation
le n bn,nan haIpr in ono of those SD3Di