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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

AMUSING RAILROAD INcIpENr-
Scene-A railroad depot train about
to depart-engine bell ringing for tho
last tine-conductor cries eAlf aboard r.
A yell heard down the road leading to
tho village-horse attached to lumber
wagon coming alta heavy gallop -boy driv-
ing and laying on the lash-m standing
up and swinging his hat and yelling, Hold
on with them keers hair trunk With
brass nails in back end of wagon bobbiug
up and down, standing on It's head AID
throwing flip flaps. Conductor holds op
minute--man with white hat jumps out
before the trunk-reaches the platform
jams his hat on bis head, side to front
grabs hair trunk and rushea for the
"keers'-trunk pitched into baggage car
and white hat tumbled aboard by several
accommodating individuals on the plat
form as the train moves away.
White hat, disheveled, out of breath
and perspiring, drops into seat BY the
side of a crusty- looking passenger who is
reading paper.
White hat-"Whew! right smart
chase they gave me. Reckon this train
is ahead of time; amt it sir ?"
Crusty-"Humph DO know"
White hat -.Hurried SO hadn't time
to check my hair trunk. Think it's safe
'thout one of the thingum- bobs onto it,
hey 2"
Crusty (shrinking deep into his coat
collar and drawing impatiently away
"Can't sayp'
White hat determined to make him
self agreeable-"Livef fur round here 2"
Crusty Every gruff) f)-"Nov'
White hat-'sBeen travelling long 2"
Crusty (burying himself still deeper in
his paper r)-aNo, amt"
White haiti (peering carefully at Crusty's
paper)-aI see you are reading the New
York Herald Up in our parts we think
Mr.. Greelcy's paper about right. Ever
read the Tribune 2"
Crusty every snappish) -"No; wipe
my feet ON the Tribune"
White hat (takiDg . big chew of tobac-
co)-aWell, stranger, you just keep on
reading the Herald and wiping your feet
on the TriJnne, and your feetn know
more than your head does :"
Crusty gathered himself up with q
growl and made for another seat, amid
the laughter of the passengers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

PERIsHED OF FAMINE AND THIRST.
IF. G.. Mcdonald, under date of July
26th, writes to the Shermantown w hite
Pine) Telegram, from his camp at the
Mcdonald salt ranch, in Nye county
s(Nev), that on the day previous man
was found by a gentleman named Bas-
ford, in dying condition, near Nc
Donald's station. When found he was
still able to speak and to swallow little,
but was past all help, and died at sun
down. When found he stated that he
was lost, and had been unable to get up
for three days. His name, from letter
found upon him, wss supposed to be
William FL. Woodbridge. He was Q
man about forty years Of age, He was
probably on the way from White Pine to
Reveille.. District, and died for want of
food and water He passed within three
hundred yards Of plenty Of water, in full
sight Of the road, but Was probably so
crazed he did not know anything about
ii. He was properly buried by the men
ut the salt marsh
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04
VARIOUS ITEMS.


Render, did yon ever enjoy the ecstatic
bliss Of eourting IF Jon dida't, then
get q httle galas.try.
The average length Of potterfs rife Is
twcnty-nfne years. After that he be-
comes clay.
@sHere's to internal Improvement" IS
Dobbs said when be swallowed desc ef
salts.
Motto for the Sheriff-Ksnder unto
scizer the things which are seizcr's.
4 Is there anytrSiBg ia sks world that
can beat q good wife ? Yes--a bad hns-
band
What fsnd d an the Iasds DO rscH Ire
best q Lapland.
Medical query When person de-
clares that bis brains are on FIRE, = i etis
quote to blow them ont
So you say that walking sticks came
into use very long agos Not . doubt of
it; don't we read that Adam had CainY
It is stated that lightning strikes mors
women than men every year. Ito be-
cause they're more attractive, to be sure
An EHglishnlan, paying an Irish shoe
black with ruderess: the 'sdisty uychin"
said: "My honey, oil tho polish you
have is upon your boots, and gave you
that"
An Irishman being asked Why he re-
fused to pay doctors bill, said "Surs
an he didn't give me anything but some
emetics, and divil ono would lay in my
stummick"
Tom asked an old sften-per. cent" what
he wanted to accumulate SO much money
for. Says he, "you can't take it with
You when you die, and il you could, it
acould melt"
Nanny J" said precocious little
boy who, against his will, was made to
rock the cradle Of his litiIs b1oshsr, 'sIf
the Lord has any more babies 10 give
away, don't you take EN-"
In a religious excitement in Boston, .
certain person met Christian neighbor
who took him by the hand and said
81 have become Christian
81 am glad Of it," he replied. "Sup~
pose we now have a settlement of that
little account between us. Pay me what
thou owest"
"No," said that newborn child, turning
on his heel s'religion n religion, and bus
mess is business"
Boys compositions are sometimes TO
the point. Here is one /: Water Is good
to drink, 10 swim in and skate on, whom
frozen. When was little baby the
nurse used to fsths me every morning
in water. have been trld that the In
juns don't Nnsh themselves bus once in
ten years. I wish was an Injunl
A Kentucky paper says the way they
exterminate crows in Rowan county il
this Several grains Of corn are strung
upon horse hair, which, when swallow.
ed, causes tickling sensation in the
crows throat. In his efforts to get ii MP.
the crow invariably scratches his head of.
"How fast they build houses, now 4
said H.; "tLsy began that building last
week, and now they are putting in the
lights" "Yea,y answered the friend
"and the next week they win put in the
liver"
The amusement Of reading Is among
the greatest consultations Of I,fs; il i the
nurse Of virtue; the upholder Of adyer-
sity !; the prop Of independance tha am
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

A DIVIDED HousE.-There seems to
be prospect that Mormonism will des-
troy itself A war has broken out at
Salt Lake between Brigham Young and
Alexander and David Smith, sons Of the
first Mormon prophet. At a Josephite
meeting on the 11th instant, Alexander
Smith characterized Brigham Young's
system as the vilestiniquity that ever blur
red the earth. All we have to say, is, let
the war 60 on. IF the factions will eat
each other up, Kilkenny like, our coun-
try will be rid of semi-religious nui-
sance which may cause the Government.
trouble to root out. Our sympathy is
therefore with the Smith family, hoping
it may absorb Brigham Young and then
destroy itself. A house divided against
itself must fall. Down with Brigham,
and then down with the Smiths
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

The New York World says a Chi
nese giant eight feet six inches high, is
said TO have just arrived il this country.
We advise that he be engaged as Super
inteudent of Police in San Francisco, to
protect his fellow countrymen from the
California boys.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

YAKIMA INDIAN AGENcY.-The fol-
| lowing paragraph in relation to Father
Wilbur and the Yakima Indian Agency,
taken from Wednesdays Laioaist, we
| heartily endorse. We do not believe
there is man living who can better fill
the position recently occupied by Father
Wilbur at Yakima. The Indians love
and respect him, and his peer in honesty
and every characteristic that makes the
true man, doesn't live; therefore there
was no plausible excuse for his removal E:
General Grant rather missed it when
he removed Father Wilbur from the
Yakima indian Agency, and put mill
tary gentleman In his place. There are
few as distinterested men or better
Christians extant than this reverend and
stalwart pioneer Methodist, who has the
energy and business tact to have succeeded
in making money, if that had been his
object, or of achieving distinction in
public life, if he had been ambitious, for
he had the personal qualities to COM
mand it. But Father Wilbur devoted
himself to the general good, and as a
minister of the gospel, he worked with
his hands as well as with his mental
powers. We used to see him hauling
timbers with an ox-team, in 1850, to
build the Portland Academy, and he was
as ready on the Sabbath with sermon as
he was week days with the ox-goad.
When he devoted himself to the work of
preaching to the Indians at Yakima, he
did so with his whole soul, and with no
speculative intention; and when he was
appointed Indian Agent, he strove TO
benefit the Indians, not to enrich him
self. To replace such man with some
inexperienced military officer, on the
poor plea of doing the Indians service
and prevent them from being swlndled,
was unwise, for the military officer who
attempts to succeed him will find it diff
cult to convince his charge that his pre-
decessor was not better man.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

A Memphis dispatch announces that :
ball e 70 be held il that oity for the pur-
pose Of raising funds % secure tho re-
prieye of TIVE prisouers nov under ssn-
tence Of death for murder.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04
A Real Hero-A scene at Sea.


Two weeks ago on board an English
steamer little ragged boy, aged nine
years, was discovered on the fourth day
of the outward voyage from Liverpool
to New York, and carried before tn. first
mate, whose duty it was to deal with such
cases. When questioned as to the object
of his being slowed away, and who
brought him on board, the boy, who had
beautiful sunny face and eyes that look
ed ike fhe very mirrors of truth, replied
that his stepfather did it, because he
could not afford to keep him, nor pay his
passage out to Halifax, where he had an
Eaunt who was well off, and to whose
house he was going. The mate did not
believe the story, in spite of the winning
face and truthful accents of the boy.
He had seen too much of stow -aways to
be easily deceived by them, he said; and
it was his firm conviction that the boy
had been brought on board and provided
with food by the sailors. The little fell
low was very roughly handled in conse-
quence. Day by day he was questioned
and requestioned, but always with the
same result. He did not know sailor
on board, and his father alone had secre-
ted him and given him the food which
he ate.
At last the mate, wearied by the boys
persistence in the same story, and per-
haps little anxious to inculpate the
sailors, siczed him one day by the collar
and dragging him to the fore, told him
that unless he confessed the truth in ten
| minutes from that time he would hang
him on the yard arm. He then made
him sit down under it on the deck. All
around him were the passengers and sal
lors of the midday watch, and in front Of
him stood the inexorablc mate, with his
chronometer in his hand, and the other
officers of the ship BY his side. It was
the finest sight, said our informant, that
we had ever beheld-to sec the pale,
proud, scornful faco of that noble boy,
his head erect. his beautiful eyes bright
through the tears that suffused them
When eight minutes had fed, the mate
told him he had but two minutes to live,
and advised him to speak the truth and
save his life but he replied, with the
utmost simplicity and sincerity, by ask
ing the mate if he might pray.
The mate said nothing, but nodded his
head, and turned as pale as ghost, and
shook with trembling like reed with
the wind. And there, all eyes turned on
him, this brave and noble little fellow,
this poor waif from society owned not,
and whose own stepfather, could not care
for him-therc he knelt with clasped
hands and eyes upraised to Heaven,
while he repeated audily the Lords
Prayer. and prayed the dear Lord Jesus
to take him to heaven.
Our informant adds that then and there
occurred scene as Of Pentecost. Sobs
broke from strong, hard harts, as the
mate sprang forward to the boy and
clasped him to his bosom, and kissed him
and blessed him, aud told him how sin
cerely he nov believed his story, and
how glad he was that he had been brave
enough to face death and be willing to
sacrifice his life for tho truth of his own
word.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

Brigham Young says he will coniine
himself to one woman, if every member
Of Congress win do the same.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

The Catholic priest at Klein Zell, i
celebrated holy place on the Continent,
has turned Protestant and married.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-04

A THROUGH CAR TO THE PACIFIC
OcEAN.-Thc next best thing to travel
ing to San Francisco in Pullman palace
car, is a trip to the Hudson River Depot
to inspect the one which ran through
from the Golden Gate last week. il is
on exhibition there previous to its depart
ure for another through trip on Saturday
next, and If one wishes to obtain clear
idea Of the luxury Of modern travel, he
should by all means take look II the
"Wasatch." BY paying small sum,
S24, extra, one can start in : Pullman
palace at the Atlantic, dine en- route on
all the luxuries which the temperate
zone produces, sleep on down, or what ID
far better this weather, on superior
spring mattrass, and land week later
on the Pacific, refreshed and invigorated,
and with very profound contempt for
those who ride in common chaises, or the
old style sleeping coaches Of year or
two ago.--Nep York Times, July
ESD. 81
How TO CAN CoRN.-The following
receipt for putting up corn for winter
use will be found valuable Boil it ff-
teen minutes on the ear !; then dry the
grain an hour in pans in tho warm sun
shine ncxt salt it just as much as will
leaving half an inch Of space, put : gill
aperture about the size Of . pin ID the
place the tins ia kettle, having just
enough water to reach within half an
inch Of the top of the cans then boil
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03

The INDIAN.-In the current number of
Putnam's Magazine, there occurs in a
sketch of adventures on the western plains,
an APPALLING description Of the savagery of
the Indians and the deadly nature of their
primitive weapons, which we are accus-
toned to consider too much inferior to ours.
We naturally set down the accounts as
sensational and overdrawn but we now
see by Winona paper that General
Sanborn, in his lecture in that city the
other day, expressed the opinion that the
most deadly weapon which the Indian can
use in his mode Of warfare is the bow and
the spear. General Sanborn has practical
knowledge of Indian warefare, and his
statements and infertnces, we presume,
may be relied on as correct.
He says the effective distance to which
an arrow can be thrown is about eighty
yards, and that an expert warrior drawing
the Aint- headed shafts from bis quiver,
three at time; can discharge them so
rapidly that he will have the third arrow
in the air before the first has reached its
destination. AT the Phil. Kearney mas.
sacre, eighty-two man and officers were
killed in less than one hour, and only two
of them were slain by bullets. a
The chief Little Bear once said to Gen.
Harney, "Give my people guns, pistols
and cannon. and we will come out and
fight your soldiers openly The General
at once agreed to furnish them with the
desired white mans arms, if they would
encounter his troops in fair stand up
fight, but the willy chief declined the ehal-
lenge. 1t is said that the forms of the
arrow>heads used BY different tribes are
all different. The Cheyennes cut small
grove along the body Of their arrows, from
The barb to the feather, 90 blood May not
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03
Pr. du CHEN Tragedy.

Pr. du Chien Tragedy.
As everything connected with the recent
murder Of the druggist, ExoRY WR1cHr,by
Doctor Miller, interests the public, we
copy from correspondent Of the Chic. 90
Journal, the following dying statement:
Emory Wright, the person murdered on
the 10Th day Of January, 1869, at Prairie
du Chen, Wis, by Daniel Miller and his
wife, Mary Miller, to wit: About
o'clock on the morning of January 10Th,
some one came to the window of the Office
at my drug store and tapped at the win
dow. asked what was wanted. Some
one replied: II want q prescription put
up The voice was wOman's voice. l
told her to go to the front door, and sot
up and let her ir. Mrs. Miller came in
and handed me prescription to put up.
About this time, Daniel Miller, known as
DR.. Miller, came in and said he was sorry
to trouble me, but he did not want the
ingredients put up together. Iput up the
prescription in the manner requested. The
woman then asked what the charge was.
| informed her seventy-fve cents. She
handed me a FIVE dollar bill. went into
the Office aud opened the safe, and took
out tho change and handed it to her. DR..
Miller at this time, stepped behind me,
and struck me three blows on my head
with soldering iron. At the third blow
the iron flew of the handle.S seized the
iron and struck Miller on the head. The
woman then seized my arms, and Miller
put one arm around my neck and cut me
in the mouth with some sharp instrument.
l thought he intended to cut my throat
About this time the woman let 60 Of me
and ran out of the front door. Miller then
stabbed me twice, once in the right side
and once near the pit of tho stomach
Miller then ran to the front door and was
locking it, when l ran past him and went
through the glass pane in the other door.
After got to the street saw woman
run up Bluff street, near the Mondell
House. thought she was the same wo-
man. The man that Horace Beach, Geo.
NJ. Rising and DR.. Conant brought into
my room to-day, about 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, is the same person who struck
and stabbed me. The foregoing state
ments are made by me under the full
belief that l have no chance Of recovery
from my injuries, and that I am now on
my death>bsd, and these are nay dying
declarations.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03

The following curious inscription has
been copied from gravestoAe in Essex
county, N. j.
"IIere lies the man Richard,
And Mary his wife,
Their surname was Pritchard;
They lived without strife;
And the reason was plain
They abounded in riches,
They had no PAIN
Aud his toifc Wore Tie brsectes."
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03

..THE great men Of our day, says the
Boston Courier, will look much smaller
fifty years hence, than they do now. In
fact a great many of them will not be vis-
ible at all to the eyes of posterity. Brass
and marble won't save them from obliv-
ion. A burning tor barrel few feet off
appears to be as large as the sun, but the
distance of a few miles renders it invisi-
BILE. Tho happiest definition. ever given
of tho present period of American history
is, that it is the era of great events and
little men.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03
WE DELIVER GOODS

70 any part Of the 0ity for 26 cts.
. load, which goes to the Dray.
man. We can furnish families in
the City their orders as cheap as
any concern delivering goods free
Of charge buys them, thereby saw
ing money to purchaser and sus.
taining the xaboring Glasses.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03
In the way Of
CANDIES,
CoNFEcTIoNERlEs,
SWEET MEATS, &C.,
In the way Of

We have facilities such a. chal-
lenge competition. We will un-
dersell ANY HOUSE in town in
this line, for either home manufac-
ture or imported.
In fact we have everything in
the line Of our trade and courte.
ously ask an examination Of our
Stock.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03

BuDDHIsT TRICKERy.-Mr Blodget wrote
from Pekin Passing down the street, a
few days since saw Buddhist priest sit
ting by the wayside ''in confinement =
He was inclosed by little house, made of
small square strips Of wood, latticed, and
of course open on every side, covered by a
roof; the whole just large enough for his
chair and himself, in usual sitting posture:
The frame, of oak or elm, was perforated
at every intersection by spikes which
bristle at the poor man whichever way he
turns, and theoretically allow him no rest
by night or day until they are removed.
A price is fixed on each spike, and the
money, when paid in by the plying spect-
ators, goes into the treasury for the re-
pairs Of the temple. The price of the
spikes varies so as to give opportunity Tor
the poor and rich alike to make their con-
tributions. The spikes which aim at his
eyes are thirty ounces of silver each.
Some of them might be bought for sing
le dime, There he is fed and he lives
for months, or year even, in this cell OF
torment, to wiring money from hearts in
which avarice, want, compassion and
superstition struggle for the supremacy.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03
WHOLE No. 642.
clog about the weapon and the victim may
bleed to Minneapolis Tribune.

COMPULSORY EDUcATIoN.- question
was ably discussed before the Young Mems
Literary Association at the Court House
in this village, last Friday evening, by
Messrs. Hall, Bintliff, Butler, Medbury,
Bradshaw and Phelps. The discussion
embraced q wide field, including many
plausible theories and much valuable his
torical information; but no decision was
rendered on the question.
We think the question Of exercising
State authority to compel all children to
attend the common schools, is one of very
doubtful propriety. The exercise of such
arbitrary power il inconsistent with the
fundamental principles of our Govern
ment. 1t would be an interference with
our personal rights extremely repugnant
to every idea Of American liberty. 1t
would be akin to the arbitrary DEGREES of
despots, demanding of their subjects their
adhesion to a prescribed form Of religion.
Let the State make ample provision for
the education Of all the children, and the
intelligence Of our citizens will lead them
to accept, for the benefit of their children,
the privileges thus muniicently bestowed.
Let there be compulsion only schen there is
crime
We clip the above from the Monroe
Sentinel of Green Co., Wisconsin. We
like its tone. 1t is something refreshing.
When a government becomes AUsTRIAN-ic,
furnishing religion, schools ard amuse-
ments, and pauperising its people by cul>
tivating imbecility or helplessness, that
government ceases to be guardian, it is
then a MASTER. The management OF
schools dow-a-days tends to the Austrian
system. All monarchies will provide sub
Jects with "fodder' if the subjects will
hurrah for those who rule them. Some
time or other, more of this. HIGH &
BoorH of the Sentinel have our Individual
thanks. The school system of the coun-
try want a universal overhauling. An
experience of seven years as teacher does
not leave US unposted. Changes Of books
to oblige publishers, changes of teachers
to accommodate politicians, changes of
rules to suit sectarianism, the employment
Of simpletons to please relative,-well,
the almost everything about the system
and practice leads to more advance to-
ward "the blissful lover of ignorance
than it does in other directions. The bal,
ance Of this subject hereafter.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03
position of the pardoning power, there

position of the pardoning power, there
fore, etc." "a,
5. The proclamation of President Lin
coin, dated the Goth of March, 1864, defn-
ing cases in which persons are entitled to
the benefit of his preceding proclamation.
46. The proclamation of President Johp
son, dated the 2Sth day of May, 1865,
similar to Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation of
Dec.S, 1868, granting pardon and amnesty
except for cases therein named.
7. The proclamation of President john
son, dated Dec. I, 1867, extending full
pardon to certain persons who were en-
gagged in the rebellion. This proclamation
extends pardon to the classes mentioned
who were not pardoned by the preceding
proclamation.
8. The proclamation of President john
SOC, Of July 4, 1868, granting general
pardon and amnesty to persons engaged
in the late rebellion, with exceptions and
reservations. ..,...-.... ..