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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27
Railroad Talk.

Inc people OF lnls county In particular
are anxious to know the precise line on
which the railroad is going to be built,
but unfortunately we are unable at this
time to give a positive answer on the
subject in fact, the Company has not
decided on which line they will locate
the road.
As is known to all, two surveys have
been made almost to the southern bound
airy of the county, one of which runs
through Albany, and the other further
east. Col. Moores, the President of the
Company, and Mr. Holiday, the con-
tractor, were in town the latter part of
last week, for the purpose of consulting
with Chief Er gineer Brooks, who is now
In the field, about the line on which the
road sh-ll run after leaving Salem. We
understand that nothing definite was
settled upon, nor can there be until
further observations are made.
Mr.. Brooks has gone with Hon. Jesse
Applegate, who came to this city for
that purpose, to view the Rock Creek
Pass through the Calipooia mountains.
This pass is to the west of the old Cart
wright road running over that range
Mr. Holiday takes quite an interest in
the survey of that pass, and leads US to
believe that if it shall prove practicable,
the road will be run that way. 1t is
claimed that it is better route and ten
miles shorter than the one by Eugene
and Pass Creek. If this prove to be the
case, the road will probably be located
through the Rock Greek Pass, passing
through this city and crossing the Viii
lamette river at Harrisburg.
Another question, however. enters into
the location of the line of tie road, and
that is the bridge across the river at the
above named place. A draw will have
to be made in the bridge to allow boats
to pass, and it is feared that it will be
difficult to make pier stand the floods
The other route is however, open to the
same objection. Although the Mckenzie
fork of the Willamette is not now navi-
gated, yet Legislature unfriendly to the
road might declare it SO. or steamboat
company might put on a small craft in
the winter, when the courts would COM
pei the railroad company to take down
their bridge or put a draw in The same
state of facts exist at the crossing of the
main river at Springfield, or even higher
up. So it remains question whether OF
not it would be economy in the end to
build draw bridge at Harrisburg or In
that vicinity.
But the routes through this county are
so nearly equal, that it is partially within
the control of our people to give the di-
rectiou to the road The Company will
be controlled il some measure by the
amount of damages it is compelled 20
pay for the right of way. Farmers and
others along the surveyed line which
passes through this city, who shall con-
clude that they are benefited (and who
is not p more than damaged, and shall
freely give rights of way through their
premises, by SO doing will hold out an
to the Company that will
enter largely into the selection of the line
on which the road will be built.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

AccEPIABLE.-Mr. John Luper, who
lives some FIVE miles from Albany, left
at our office on Monday, sack of pota
toes, the smallest of which were sstun-
ners." They were of the Prince Albert,
an exceedingly large potato, white kid
ney, and other varieties, and weigh up
wards of sixty pounds to the bushel.
MIR. Luper's success as farmer is pro-
verbal, and his constant rememb berance
of the printer is only another evidence of
his big heartedness. Long life to him
and his, say we
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

AT HoME.-The party, composed of
Messrs. Fred Hill, the Messrs. Kuhn
and VIM. briggs, that left this place
two months since on a pleasure trip,
returned home this week, after having
visited Ochoeo valley, the Eastern coun-
ties of Oregon, and Walla Walla, in
Washington Territory. The party en-
joyed the trip very much, and returned
home with the best of health and spirits,
though they were out in several heavy
rain storms while in the neighborhood Of
Walla Waila..
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

ONE-HALF GUILTY.-A fellow named
Donks was lately tried at Yuba City, for
entering a miners tent, and seizlDg bag
of gold dust valued at eighty four dol
lars. The testimony showed that he
had once been employed there, and knew
exactly where the owner kept his dust
that on the night specified he cut slit
in the tent, reached in, took the bag,
and then ran off. Jim Butler, the prin-
cipal witness, testified that he saw the
hole cut, saw the man reach in, and
heard him run away.
g I rushed after him at ONCE" contin-
ued the witness " but when / cotched
him didn't find Bills bag; it was
found afterward where he had throwed
it.
g How far did he get in when he took
the dust ?" inquired the counsel.
Well, he was stoopin' over about
half in, | should say" replied the wit
ness.
May it please your honor" interposed
the council, .the indictment isn't sus
tanned, and shall demand an acquittal
on direction of the court. The prisoner is
on trial for entering dwelling in the night
oiuC, Will Iut0ut W StCdi lnG t0Stlu1Ouy
is clear that he made an opening through
which he protruded himself about half
way, and, stretching out his arms, COM
mitted the theft But the Indictment
charges that he actully entered the tent
or dwelling. Now, your honor, can :
man enter house., when only one-halt
of his body is in, and the other half
out ?"
shall leave the whole matter to the
jury They must Judge of the law and
tie facts as proved" replied the judge.
The jury brought in . verdict OF
]" Guilty" as to one-half Of his body from
the waist up, and 9 not guilty" as TO the
other half
The Judge sentenced the guilty part
to two years imprisonment, leaving It 70
the prisoners option to have the innocent
part cut of or take it along with him.
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CHANNEL CHANGED.-Capt Miller,
of the steamer Eclto, informs us that the
late freshet has almost ruined the river
channel between Harrisburg and Eugene
City, and that unless the new chutes are
very much improved by subsequent high
water, it will be impossible to reach
Eugene City with boats except at the
very highest stages of water.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

RETuRNED.-Mr. Martin Payne and
lady, who went East some weeks since,
returned on Monday night. Mart. looks
as though travelling agreed with him, and
the trip proved as pleasureable rs he
expected.
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CuriOsitics.

! The Merced Herald says: A monster
/ egg on exhibition at the Postofice Va-i-
ETY. store in this place, which was laid by
hen owned by s. K Spear, a resident
! of this valley. The egg measures eleven
inches around its largest circumference,
or lengthwise, eight and IA half inches
around laterally. Proof positive exists
that the egg was laid by hen of the
Shanghai species, and we believe it is of
the greatest dimensions of any yet re-
ported. Measures have been taken for
the preservation of the egg for exhibit
tion at the San Joaquin District fair the
coming fall.
In the vicinity of Spoon river, Illinois,
is child that was born and has lived
five years without head. Mrs. -
the mother, is the widow of soldier,
formerly lived in Marshall county, who
enlisted in the Sixty fifth, or Scotch reg
iment, and was killed at the. battle of
Lexington, Missouri: She was standing
beside her husband during an engage
ment, when cannon ball carried away
his head, his body falling into her arms
and covering her with blood. When her
child was born there was not the SEM
blance of head about it. The limbs
are perfectly developed, the arms long,
and the shoulders, where the head and
neck should be, smoothly rounded off.
But the most surprising thing OF all is
that the face is situated on the breast.
OF course there being no neck the power
of turning the head is wanting, except
as the whole body is moved but this
difficulty is overcome by the singular
faculty it possesses of turning the socket
enabling it to see quite as wells as those
more perfectly formed. The upper por-
ton of the body is as white as the purest
Caucasian. while from the waist down
ward it is blood red This strange crea-
ture, now an active boy of five years, as
if to compensate for his deformity, pos
sesses the most clear and birdlike voice
ever listened to, singing with singular
correctness evel ything it may hear. and
its voice at this early age accomplishes
two octaves easily.
Samuel Sedgewick, of New Lebanon,
N. Y, recently killed and dressed hen
because she produced no eggs; but upon
being dressed, fifteen eggs were found,
six of them with hard shells and full
size, and two with soft shells, also full
size This was one of ten fowls which
produced 1000 eggs in four months-
the one dressed above having laid during
that time ten eggs measuring seven by
eight inches. No wonder she stopped
laying.
Methuen has division store situated
in two States, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, three counties, Rockingham,
and Hillsboro', New Hampshire, and
Essex, Massachusetts,, and three towns,
Methuen, Mass, and Salem and Pilham,
N. Fl. It is doubtful if there is another
store in just such position.
In New Bedford there is thorough
bred horse, four years old, sixteen hands
high, handsome and perfect in every par
ticular, with the exception that he has
no tail. The place where the tail ought
to be, is occupied by lock Of hair..about
foot long. He was born on the battle
field of Seven Pines
A Greek maid being asked wha. for
tune she would bring her husband, replied:
IT will brinor him what oold cannot nur-
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

THANKS, GENTLEMEN-We are spec-
tally indebted to Messrs. 10. Webber.
Ike Conn, W. J. Hiltabidel and Isaac
McClurg for aid in getting our Gordon
Job Press in the REGISTER office last
week. When it comes to muscle-oh,
no. guess not.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

CoRNs.-One teaspoonful of tar, one
of coarse brown sugar, and one of salt
petrc. The whole of them to be warmed
together. Spread it on kid leather the
size of the corns, aud in two days they
will be drawn out
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

Deaths are reported 10 all parts Of the
country of children poisoned by eating
lucifer matches. Il may relieve parents
to know that the little dears can be cured
by drinking spirits Of turpentine.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

ADVERTISING The cau says trying
to do business without advertising is ike
winking at pretty girl through q pair Of
green goggles. You may know that you
are doing it, but nobody else does
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

A little girl was told to spell /" ferment"
and give its meaning, with sentence in
which it is used The following was
literally her answer: F-e-r-m-e-n-t, sig
nifying work. I love to ferment in the
garden
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

A Cambridge lady had stuffed bird
in her hat, which was so natural that her
cat, thinking it genuine, captured it and
ate it half up before she found that she
was mistaken The result was ruined
hat and sick cat
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

DAM WASHED OUT-The new dam
of the Harrisburg FIGURING Mill Compa-
nay was taken out by the high water on
Saturday last. The dam was built across
branch of the Willamette river, from
the main land to an island, and so much
care was taken in the construction of it
that no fears for it's safety were enter
tanned by the Company; but the treach-
erous sandbank on the island side gave
way, when whole summers work was de=
stroyed in less than twenty minutes. The
dam cost 800, and the whole damage
by reason of the stoppage of the machin-
cry will not fall below $4,000. The
principal losers are Hiram Smith and Eli
Moore. It is the present intention of
the Company to put in new dam next
summer, at cost of sc, 700.
ATTEMPTED LARCENY. - We learn
from Mr. j. NJ Mcconnell, who lives
about two miles east of Albany, that on
Saturday night last stranger in these
parts, entered his barn yard and tried to
make off with one of his horses The
animal, having liking for home, refused
to go, and SO his would be captor went
off, but left carpet bag on the premises.
The fellow came back after the carpet
bag, but pretends to know nothing about
the horse stealing, and says he was
drunk. He came through Corvallis the
day that he made his appearance here.
The drunken man seems to have been
roughly handled some where, as his eyes
were in deep mourning.
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S. II. Ciaughton.

NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE
~ AGENT Office in the Post Office building.
Lebanon. Oreqon
WI! attend t. making Deeds and other convey
anees. also to the prompt collection of debts
trusted to nv care.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

A lady OF Harrisburg, Pa, is Ian
gushing in Jail becausetof her appetite
for whisky. and putting her arms around
men in the street, without license.
Men must be protected in some way.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

Seven farmers in one Vermont village
have 1O2 children. Johnathan Eddy's
share is nineteen. He heads the list.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

MANY persons destroy their window
sash endeavoring to remove old putty.
This may be obviated BY applyiae : hot
poker tolthe putty which viii tAen readily
yield to the knife.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

HIGHER.-Dealers at Harrisburg and
vicinity are asking fifty-five cents for
wheat, but we have heard of no sales at
that figure
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

A Greek maid being asked wha. for
tune she would bring her husband, replied:
I will bring him what gold cannot pur-
chase-a heart unspotted, and virtue
without stain, which is all that descend
ed to me from my parents
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

Good children will b glad 70 hear that
Texas has raised = large csstor oil crop
this year
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

A Yankee waeed Dt lehman that he
could swallow him. The .,utcnman Law
down upon board, and the Yankee bit
his toe severely The victim screamed
with pain, and told him to stop /" Why,
We tarnal fool r cried Johnathap. We
don't think Tm going to swallow We hui,
do We 9y
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Mitchell, DoIph & Smith.

a TT0RNEYS AND CouNSELLoRs AT LAW.
~ Solicitors in Chancery and Proctors in Ad-
miralty. Office over the old Posi- Office Front
street, Portland Oregon.
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The Albang Re9ister.
COLL. VANCLEVE.
TERMs-TN ADVANCE.
ADVERTISING RATES.
OFFICE CORNER OF FERRY AND FIRsr-srs

Transient advertisements per Square of ten
lines or less, first insertion, S3 each subsequent
insertion, 81.
Larger advertisements inserted on the most
liberal terms.
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y. QUINN THORNTON.

ALBANY, OREGON
"TILIi practice in the superior and inferior
w courts of Marion. Linn, Lane, Benton and
Polk counties.
Five per cent. charged collections when
made without sueing- 1889
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

r. ". REpFIELp. p. W. sPISk
r.. vi REDFIELD d CO.,
CONSTANTLY on hand and receiving a
large stock of
Groceries and Provisions,
Wood and Willow Ware. Tobacco, Cigars Com
fectionery, Yankee Notions, &c. &c.. Wholesale
and Retail, opposite r. C. Hill & Sons drug
store, Albany, Oregon. 5oct9
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27
ALBANY BATH HOUSE

YNNHE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT
fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi
cinity that he has taken charge of this establish
ment, and by keeping clean rooms and paying
strict attentie to business, expects to suit all
those no may favor him with their patronage.
Having heretofore carried nothing but
First-Class Hair Dressing Saloons,
he expec.s to give entire satisfaction to all.
a- Children and Ladies' hair neatly cut and
shampooed. JOSEPH WEBER.
selI9y2
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EltabideI s. Co.

~ EALERS IN GROCERIES AND PRO
Ii visions, Wood and Willow Ware, Cenfec-
zionery, Tobacco, Cigars Pipes. Notions. etc
Main street adjoining the Express office, Albany,
Oregon.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27
JOB WORK.

Having received new type. stock of colored
inks, cards. a Gordon Joblser, ETC., we are pre-
manner aud fifty per cent. cheaper than ever be
fore offered in this city.
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Agents for the Register.
BUSINESS CARDS.

y. HANNON.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
ALBANY. OREGON.
AFFICE On Main street. opposite Fosters
~ Brick l-69
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e a. Ereelaud.

nE4LER IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF
~ School, Miscellaneous and Blank Books
Stationery Il old and Steel Pens, Ink etc. Post
office Building Albany. Oregon Books ordered
from New Z ERIK and San Francisco
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C. Mea1cy & Co,

MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALERS
va in all kinds Of Furniture and Cabinet
Ware. First street, Albany.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-27

:. Through the valley howls the blast,
Drizzling rain falls thick and fast
Homeward goes the youthful bride
Der the wild-crow.is by her side.
How is it, o azure Heaven.
From my home thus am driven,
Through the land my way to trace,
With no certain dwelling placeY
Dark. dark, the minds of men.
Worth in vain comes to their ken,
Hasten on my term of years,
Old age. Gesolata disannears -
, 1869-12-31
S Z, 6 OK Az s,

since, as every one knows, the most emf
nent mathematiclans have sometimes mis-
conceived the bearings of a perpIexing
problem.
But, as Mr.. Airy himself pointed out,
Newton and Laplace were both with
him !
How is it that the views of Newton
and Laplace, admittedly the very highest
authorities which could be quoted, have
found no place in our treatises of astro-
nomy ? Their views have never been dis
proved. In fact, as we have seen, sone of
the most eminent of our mathematlcians,
in re examining the question, has come
to precisely the same conclusion. Can 1t
be that the explanation actually given is
preferred, on account of its greater SIM
plicity A.? That would he reasonable, if the
two explanations were uccordant, but
they happen unfortunately to be wholly
opposed 10 each other, and therefore one
of them must he false. Those who teach
US our geography and astronomy ought
to look to this.
The worst of it is, that most ofthe con-
sequences which astronomers a$crlbe to
the action of the tidal wave depend on
the choice we make between the rival
theories. If the ordinary view is right,
the moons motion is continually being
FASTENED by the attraction of the bul ging
;idal wave and this fastening will bring
the moon into q smaller and smaller orbit
until at last she will be brought into con-
tact with the earth, unless, as Professor
Alexander Herschel suggests, she should
crumble u1aer the increased effects of the
earth's action, and so come to form a ring
of fragments around our globe. II, how
ever, the other view is right, the moons
motion will be continually retarded, her
orbit will gradually widen out, and some
day, presumably, we shall lose her alto
gether.
Again, if the viewscommonly given are
just, the earth's friction should cause the
tidal wave to lag behind its true place.
But if Newton, LapIace, and Airy are
right, then, to use the words of the last
named astronomer, "the efectof friction
will be to accelerate the time of each
individual tide"
, 1869-12-31

than usual at VauxhalI. Bridge on any
particular day ; and though many thou
sands of years must elapse before either
of the events looked forward TO by astro-
nomers shall have happened, yet we can
not but look with deep interest into the
long vista Of the coming centuries. To
the astronomer, at any rate, the study
of what will be or of what has been is as
interesting even as the study of what is.
But at the very Threshold of the in
quiry we are met by the question, DO
any of US know the law of the tides p
The reader may be disposed to smile at
such question. Does not every book Of
geography, every popular treatise on
astronomy, teach us all about the tides
Cannot every person of average education
and intelligence run through the simple
explanation ofthe tidal wave
Certainly it is so. Most of US suppose
we know, in a general way (and that is
all that we at present want), how the
moon or sun draws a tidal wave after it.
The explanation which nine hundred and
n%inety-nine Cat leas) out of every thou !
sand would give runs much in this wise
Being nearer TO the water Immediately
under her thar to the earth's centre, the
moon draws that water somewhat away
from the earth and again, being nearer
10 the earth's centre than to the water
directly beyond, the moon draws the
earth away from that water. Thus, un.
derneath the moon a heap of water is
raised, and at the directly opposite point
q heap of water is left $50 to speak. So
Nbut ynr ~ rof f6r Tho oF ,okn &C f.;oA;on
the water would assume a sort of egg
shaped figure, whose longest diameter
would point directly towards the moon.
And not only is this the explanation
which is invariably given in popular trea-
tises, but scientific men of the utmost emil
hence have adopted il, as correctly exhi-
biting the general facts of the case. Re-
Gently, for example, when Mr.. Adams
had published his proof that the moons
motion is gradually becoming accelerated
in a way which the lunar theory cannot
account for, M. Delaunay, a leading
French astronomer, e~ndeavoured to prove
that in reality it is The earlh's rotation
which is diminishing, instead of the moons
motion which is increasing. He thought
The tidal wave, continually checked by the
earth's friction as il travels against the
direction Of her rotation, would act as a
sort Of s'break,' since its friction must,
in turn, check the earth. And in discus
sing this matter he took, as his fundamen-
tai axioms, the law of tidal motion COM
monty given in our books of. geography
and astronomy. This presently called up
the Astronomer Royal, who gave a very
clear and convincing demonstration that
there would always be low water under
the moon. i&there were M frictio,
, 1869-12-31

1t is related of "a certain minister of
Maine, who was noted for his long SER
mons, with many divisions, that one day
when he was advancing among the teens,
he reached at length a kind Of resting
place in his discourse, when, pausing to
take breath, he asked the question, "And
what shall | say more 2" A voice from the
congregation earnestly responded, "Say
Amen ~
, 1869-12-31

"What would our wives say if they
knew where we are ?" said the captain of
a schooner, when they were beating
about in a thick fog, fearful Of going
ashore. "Humph! shouldn't MUD that"
replied the mate, "if we only knew where
we were ourselves"
, 1869-12-31

brethren-thirdly." This lasted several
minutes, till at last an excited old lady
rose from her seat and exclaimed, "Third-
ly went out Of the window"
, 1869-12-31

The following notice was pasted on q
large box, which passed over our great
through lines of railroad, a few days since:
"Baggage-smashers are requested to han
die this box with care, as it contains nitro
glycerine, Greek fire, gun cotton, and two
live goril as !" The box was not broken.
, 1869-12-31

A Preacher who used notes had the
misfortune to deliver a discourse-or rath-
err, as the sequel will show, a portion of
a discourse-in a breezy spot, of which
rash act the consequence was that "third-
ly' was missing. The embarrassed pas
tor repeated several times "Thirdly, my
, 1869-12-31
Receivers:

6 deposits of 20 cents. each.
IL above 20 cts. and under 5