The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-12-25

he proposition to purchase steam hre
engine.
On the 18th, the Walla Walla valley
was visited by storm of wind, hail,
sleet aud snow.
A Richmond paper suggests that vlr-
ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Kentucky establish
league for the encouragement OF foreign
Two inmates of the Cincinnati Hos
pital quarrelled. One cut the other
with a pocket-knife and killed him in
stantly.
The insurrection in the Red River
British America, will be LETT |
for the Hudson Bay Company to deal
with.
Andrew johnson has declined the
for delegate to the Tennessee
Constitutional Convention from Greene
County. ~
Iowa has seventy-nine incorporated
cities-Davenport is the largest and
Drakeville the smallest, the latter having
but 21S inhabitants.
The defalcation of George F. Dunnigan,
of the Chicago Sub Treasury, was discov-
cred lately, and amounts to $4,000.
1t is thought Allison's apportionment
bill will pass Congress by which the
House will have 800 members.
Judge Grier's resignation has finally
been sent into the Supreme Court.
The workingmen of New York have
held an anti -coolie meeting, and call on
Congress to take measures to stop the
Coolie trade.
According to the assessment returns
for 1869, the total number of hogs in
Illinois is 2,036, ,304 in 1868 the num-
Der was 1892 ,S2S, being decrease of
256,524
Don't put pens in your mouths, girls.
A Cincinnati school girl has been in the
habit of doing so, and was recently nearly
poisoned to death by the ink.
Curtis L. North, an insurance agent of
Brooklyn, N. Y, gave his beloved pastor
a raw potato the other evening. The be-
loved pastor opened the potato and found
$500 bill inside
Great Indignation is felt in North Car
olina in regard to the misappropriation
of railroad and other bonds issued by the
last Legislature. Fraud is charged and
investigation demanded.
Butler replies to Greeley's appeal for
maGnanimity to the Senate, and re-
moval of all disfranchisemeat, in caus-
tic letter in which he insists upon pro-
scription.
Nearly complete returns from New
Hampshire give 1880 votes against
the Constabulary law, and but 6,067 in
favor of it. The majority against it will
reach 5000.
A young lady applicant was denied
admission to the classes of the Columbia
College Law School, on the ground that
she might distract not only the students,
but the professors.
t We learn from the Union that on
Tuesday last, a man named Joseph Her
bert committed suicide by blowing out
his brains with shot gun. He had
been resident of Walla Walla valley for
a number of years was sober, indus
trious man, but of gloomy temperam ent
From figures furnished by the State
Controller of California it seems that the
assessment of real and personal property
in all the counties of that State for the
current fiscal year, aggregate 1888, ,O46
335. The Alta figures out net gain
over the previous year of S21, los, $50.
The California lNedical Gazette com
pliments the Oregon Medicaland Su'yica
Reporter by saying that !" if merit were
always appreciated, we might predic
with certainty large circulation for oul
contemporary journal, from the highly
scientific and practical nature of its orig
inal contributions.
Isaac S. Geer, of Lisbon, Conn, il
making some changes in water pipe
fonnd it needful to extend one through
an under drain that ran several feet below
the surface. How to get the pipe through
without taking up the drain was prob
lem. But Mr.. Geer studied upon it, am
after a while hit upon this admIrabi
, plan: He opened the lower end of tn
drain, and catching an old calico cat tha
) had been resident of his family 70
several years, attached small line to he
leg then thrusting her into the end, an
giving a most unearthly "scat," she pop
ped out at the other end, all covered wit
mud and water, with the line attached t
her leg, quicker than one could say Jacl
, Robson. The pipe was thus draw
4 through, and Mr.. Geer had the satisfac
t tion of saving s10sby wit, and teach
g ing his neighbors good lesson in civ
: engineering.
t THE DEGREES OF PRovIDENcE.---A
old fable informs us that man who wa
in the habit of arraigning the DEGREES {
Providence, being seated in garden, b.
gan to wonder why such a monstror
5 fruit as the pumpkin should grow on
e slender, slowly creeping plant, while th
! giant oak, the monarch of the fores
bore nothing bigger than an acorn /
the midst of his cogitations, an acorn fe
:. from the tree underneath which he W:
I sitting, and smote him on the pate
. whereupon the captious philosopher W:
fain to acknowledge that Providence W,
wiser in its arrangements than he ha
y 4 g, Al