The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-06
NEWS ITEMS

Pany mas failed. Its business In the
United States is secured by deposits
1850 ,00u eggs from Chicago have
reached San Francisco by the railroad
and have been sold for 80 cents per
dozen.
The regular tariff on freight by the
California aud Oregon railroad, from San
francisco to Marysville, is 81 per ton
A scrub race recently took place at
Helena (Montana) between two Cayuses
on which more than $4,000 changed
hands.
The iStdtesneaa says that wheat has
been run up to four cents pound at
Boise City, but the indications are that
1t must come down.
Coal Is now mined near Deer Lodge
and delivered at Helena. Montana, at
as low as s25 per ton. The bed of coal
is nine feet thick and of good quality
The delinquent tax of Ada county
(Boise City, Idaho) this year is six thous-
and dollars. The Statesman thinks this
favorable showing.
An eastern exchange says that it is
estimated that Great Britain will have to
import this year at least sevcnty-f mil
lion bushels of wheat.
The 81 Old Curiosity Shop" printed in
raised letters at the expense of Charles
Dickens, has been distributed among the
institutions for the blind in Pennsyl-
vania.
The Chicago Tribune keeps " pegging
away " at its pet project of removing the
Capital. Ii says in recent editorial that
the necessity of defending Washington
cost us in the late war $4,000 lives and
s500,000,000 in money
An Irishman who was drinking the
health of a bishop, gave this toast: ''May
your riverancy live to eat the old hen
that crows over your grave
4 Chinaman in California thinks that
when one man is hit by another, and the
assallant is fined twerty dollars, the mon
ey ought to go to the hit man, instead of
the Government. That is the way they
do things in China.
A fireman on the locomotive of the Cen
trail Pacific train bound west, few nights
ago, fell from the side board while in the
act of oiling the engine The train pass
ed on some two miles before he was miss
ed by the engineer, when search was
made. The man was found coiled up
against wall and asleep, being partly
stupified by the fall. The accident oc-
cured short distance this side of Prom
ontory the train travelling at high rate of
speed.
One of the editors of the New York o.
serrer is thrown into ecstacies on hearing
the celebrated stBells of Moscow" This
is the holy city of the Greek Church as
Jerusalem was the sacred city of the Jew
Pilgrims 60 thither at distance of thous-
ands Of miles on foot, and sometimes
without shoes. When they are near
enough to hear for the first time the four
hundred bells of the city, sounding in
glorious harmony, full, grand, and all per-
vading, ''like the voice of many waters"
they fall upon their faces and deyoutly
offer prayer and thanksgiving to God
The writer declares that ali the music he
ever heard was tame and trifing COM
pared with the wonderful effect of these
bells.
The Missouri Republican,. the leading
Democratic paper of "the West" has an
article in its issue of the Sd inst on Chi
ncse immigration, which concludes as fol-
lows: eve are in favor of extending to
John Chinaman hearty welcome, and
giving him fair play in the race of life
Our little thirty millions of population
can afford to receive accessions from FIVE
hundred millions, and the incalculable
agricultural and mineral resources of our
domain are not likely to be exhausted by
drains from this source. Any policy
which looks in an opposite direction, and
whose avowed purpose it is to check and
drive back emigration from China, is
contrary to the spirit of our institutions.
and will not be sustained by the moral
sentiment of free and enlightened peo-
ple."