The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-01-02
She Albang Regjster.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1869.
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

s1General Prim's father was a butcher.
General Grant had Is votes for coro-
ner In Jasper county, Illinois.
Ben. Wade says the Vice Presidency
is all in che family, at any rate.
Henry A wise has nothing better to do
than write his autobiography.
e There is wine cellar in London ex-
tending eleven acres under ground.
Cheyenne, local paper says, offered
Parepa 81, 900 to 'sswitch of there aud
singsa song"
The Pope has a navy of thirteen ves-
sels. It's principal cruising ground is in
the Holy Sec.
Nasby says that it is curious fact
that Grants first battle was at Belmont
and his last conflict was aclh Belmont.
A Boston paper says of Mrs. Scott
Siddons that ''as far as personal pulchri-
tude is concerned, the lady is an indu-
bitable success"
The 800 hands engaged by the Mer-
rick Thread Company, in Holyoke,
(Mass.) turn out 5000 dozen spools of
cotton daily.
Among the premiums offered by the
Stratford On. H) Agricultural Society
is one one Of S3 for the best child under
seven years old.
Several flowing oil wells have been
struck near Port Angel, Mexico. The
strike has created quite an excitement in
that part of the country.
A young lady named Hill was shot and
killed by young man named Grimes,
in Girrard county, Ky.
The Charleston Courier. of the 1st an
noupces the arrival of the steamship
Golden Horn from Liverpool, the first on
the new line.
Kernesville, North Carolina, with
scarcely hundred inhabitants, has sent
North this fall nearly S100,00O worth Of
dried fruit.
A relic Of the famed ram Merrimac, in
the shape of an immense anchor, weigh
ing 5000 pounds, has been raised, and
is on exhibition at Norfolk, Va.
2 A child born at Woodstock, without
arms, is to be carried to the agricultural
fair to receive aims.
J. d. Cow and M. P. Bull have gone
into Company to publish the Commercial.
The yearly issue will be bound in calf
Vancouver Register.
The Tampa, Fla, Pen,nsular, says the
Seminole Indians are about to leave Big
Cypress and go to Lake Okechobie, where
it is more healthy.
A modest old lady in Lowell, Mass,
characterized her canine, when she ap-
piled for license, as "a boy dog of the
black spaniel variety"
Taking the total vote cast at the recent
election as a basis, Counting six inhab-
itants to every voter), the present popu-
lation of the State of Illinois is estimated
at 2,686,314, which is an increase of
974,561 since 1860.
special says: 'sAdmiral Porter is reftting
and furnishing his house here ready for
occupancy next spring when he expects
to come here as Secretary of the Navy
under Gen. Grant. He is now in com
mand of the Naval Schools at Annapolis. !"
On the Virginia side of the Potomac,
opposite the Alexandria aqueduct, tract
Of land has been purchased by the Alex
andria Canal, Railroad and Bridge Com
pany, where they propose laying out o
site for town.
Columbus, Kentucky, is hard place.
An old farmer who had been badly swim
died there, said of it:
"If the angel Gabriel Happens to light
at Columbus, there'll be no resurrection,
for they'll swindle him out of his trumpet
before he can make toot"
A young Albany girl, after receiving
the attentions of young man for several
months, abruptly asked him when he in
tended to marry her. The young man
then said he was not on the marry. She
then broke teapot, filed with boiling
water, over his head. Too bad, to waste
o teapot!
Here is family puzzle In the fam
lily of Stephen Herrick, of Middlesex,
Vermont, there are three mothers, two
grandmothers, one great grandmother,
three daughters, two grand-daughters,
one great grand daughter, two wives, one
widow, two husbands, two fathers, two
sons-in-law, and one grandfather, and
only six in the family.
PASSIONATE, BUT HoNEsT.-The
Cork Reporter describes Mr.. John