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

It jackson, Mlcn1gan, VINO mas Deen kept
n solitary confinement for twenty-one
7cars, having been sent fer life for
murder at Detroit, and received into the
prison November 20, 1848.
IF it is wise to insure your house,
where the chances are only one to hum
lred that it may burn down, it is wise to
insure your life, which must certainly
snd-you know not how soon.
Prof. w. G. Kerr, State Geologist of
North Carolina, thinks that the Black
Mountains in that State were the first
dry land and the oldest earth on the
globe.
A terrible incident recently occurred
in Falticenia, in Roumania. A poor old
woman was attacked in the streets of that
town by hogs and literally deveured
alive. The number of hogs, COWS, and
steers running around wildly in that city
is so great that no woman dare go out
alone.
An economical girl in Portland took
all the medicine left in the house after
her fathers death, in order that it might
not be wasted. She is recovering.
There is an engine company in Ports
mouth, N. H., whose organization dates
back over $50 years. 1t celebrates its
anniversary with an annual dinner. Ex-
Governor Goodwin is member
Over sixty cents on every dollar paid
for taxes in this country goes to pay
such bills as forty million dollars year
for crime, thirty-two million for pauper-
ism, and twelve million for insanity in
duced by intemperance.
The New York Ereaing Erpress an
nounces that sGeorge Francis Train has
commenced suit against the Kansas
Pacific Railway Company, in which he
claims the sum of $3e0, 900. He has
also brought suit against the Union
Pacific road, in which he says he is enti-
tied to recover similar amount
A wooden building in Boston, occu-
pied by several Irish families, burned
down on the 11th. Two children, a boy
of four and girl of three, were burned
to death.
"Bill," said one apprentice to another,
sfmy boss is better man to work for
than your old man. My boss amt al
ways round his shop interfering with his
own business"
Tom Thumb found beauty in Cali
fornia smaller than his wife, and fell in
love with her; but Mrs Thumb soon
broke in upon his dream and brought him
back to dread reality.
A young lady's opinion of the bonnet
of the season: "Oh, the bonnets of my
girlhood--t kind wore to school I
really thought them pretty. I must have
been a fool. And yet used to think
myself on hats jaunty miss. Perhaps
I was, as fashion went but what was
that to this oh, the lovely little pam
cake-the charming little mat It makes
my head SO level, and 50 very, very
fiat tv'
Fanny Fern said that the " men of the
present day are fast. Prentice replies
that they have to be :" to catch the wo-
men,"
The reduction of expences in the
Grants administration, is s2,000,000 a
year.
About the 1st inst, the Union Pacific
Railroad, east of Salt Lake, was" showed
up" and stopped the passage of the cars
for day or two.
Flour is selling in Deer Lodge-Mis-
soula brands-SS so per cwt-; Walla
Walla, S11 90 per cwt. Good stocks in
market and dealers holding off.
A Memphis jury acquitted traveller
who shot and killed hackman tor over
charging him.
The Hartford Courane has the names
of families on its books that have taken
the paper for a hundred years.
It is estimated that in the year 1900,
the population of the United States will
be one hundred millions of souls.
Portugal, Turkey, Egypt, Spain and
Greece are all in the market for loans, and
with equal chances of failure.
Cairo ladies have formed league
agreeing to lock the street door at ten
o'clock, whether their husbands are in
or out
The Government has detailed a steam.
er to go to Panama for the purpose oi
assisting in the survey Of the Darien
Canal
The ninth census will be taken nexi
June. A Census Commissioner will be
appointed to hold Office for three years.
M. Cros informs the French Academy
that he has succeeded in photographins
colors, and shows them specimens of the
work.
The Free Masons of Spain, since the
revolution there, have for the first time
been able to conduct Masonic ceremonies
at funerals
A large number of farmers of Macor
county, Missouri, in good circumstances
are unable to raise enough money to pay
their taxes.
1t has been officially decided that wher
sweet potatoes are eaten they are fruit
but when they are distilled into whisky
they are grain.
Tho Sultan protests against the act o
the Viceroy of Egypt proclaiming tht
neutrality of the Suez Canal as a tres
pass on his sovereignty
Two hundred and fifty colonists from
Austria have arrived at Richmond. They
came to settle on land purchased in Hen
rico county for them.
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