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

VARIOUS ITEMS
Messrs. Slater 4 Ayerill have gone
into the business of ship building at up
per Steilacoom.
The Wyoming Legislature assembled
at Cheyenne on the 18th inst This is
the first session of the Legislature of
that Territory.
The receipts Of the Union Pacific Rail-
road for September were over 30 per
cent greater than those for August.
This, shows a great increase Of business.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Utah was held at Salt Lake City on the
Sth instant to take into consideration the
subject OF the admission. of that Terri
tory into the Union as State.
Two members of the Washington Ter
ritory Council, Messrs. Blum j. Clarke,
elected as Republicans, are acting with
the Flanders Dennison clique in the In
tercst of the Democrats.
Chicago protests that there is not
respectable resident of that city who
would have the national capital located
there.
BY the recent freshet, twcnty.oDe mil
lion feet Of lumber in Wisconsin streams
were carried down the river, and proba-
bly, one half will be total loss to the
owners.
A lynching party in Wisconsin, who
claim to have done substantial justice in
recent hanging case, propose to apply
to the Legislature for an act legalixing
what they have done.
Jubal A. Early has returned to Lynch
burg, Va. He is represented to be look
ing better and seemingly in better spirits
than at any time since Sheridan sent
him whirling up the valley.
Mrs. Lucy Stone said good thing at
the Woman's convention at Chicago:
Some mean coward says if women vote
they should fight. Now, she would ask,
born The mother is his quartcrmaster
until he is capable of finding his own
rations.
They are trying to get up an oil fever
in the Bear river region. r. L. Peaseis
boring, thinks he has struck oil, and has
sold one-sixtieth of his well for $500.
Several parties are exploring the region,
aud an oil city has been located. The.
deserted streets of Bear River City are
being reoccupied.
From tho Walla Wallas Union At the
fair we saw pair Of socks, partly finish
ed, they being still on the needles, which
were knit on the same needles at the same
time, from the same ball of yarn, and
one was inside tho other We learn that
VIXEN they are finished, they will be fas-
tened together at the toe with a thread
of yarn. We did not learn whether it is
any moro trouble to knit two than it is
one or not
The impetus given of late years to cot
ton cultivation in the East Indies is re-
markable. The natives begin to appre-
ciate the fact that it pays them better to
produce cotton, which fetches lOd
pound in the market, than the staple mil
let of the country, which scarcely enables
them to"keep body and soul together" 10
1860 the cotton exported from India
was worth about f5,500,000 sterling.
This years crop is estimated at E20 ,l49,-
S25. Inferior as India cotton always will
be to the varieties produced in this couu-
try,it has been much improved in quality
| by care in cultivation aud packing
The Sitka Times of the 18th Septem-
Der says: On the subject of fish We never
Witnessed such a sight as we did last
Tuesday morning. The tide washed
them in by the million, and they were so
thick that it would take but moment to
fill a bushel basket. The tides have been
washing the small fish ashore IN great
! quantities, and for two bits you can pur-
chase enough to last a family SIX months
A wall street spcculator returning
home. the other evening, in no enviable
state of mind, thus announced the resu
of his operations to the family group: "No
more silk dresses this winter, my DEAR
no more balls and parties; no more opera
boxes" and, then warming with his SUBJ
;ect nno more internal winnings and din
;nos and no more id nonsense OF any
sort. Matilda"
/ To show how taxation has been rc-
duced since the close OF the war we give
an extract from speech recently deliv-
ered by Gen. Garfield OF Ohio. "When
the war ended" said be, sin 1865, tho
Government was taxing you fully. Yes,
vour taxes were $55S, 900, 900. The next
wear Congress reduced them to 6490, 600,
900: the next year to S405, ,000. 900, and
the year just closed in june, to $500, 900,
900.
The Postmaster-G General has opened
negotiations with Great Britain for the
reduction of single letter postage, from
January lst, to six cents.
4 DR.. Livingston has again be heard
from. He believes he has discovered the
source of the Nile at point ten sr
twelve degrees south.