The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-10-02
NEWS PARGRAPAHs

Ihe WIDOW OF tn0 late AOSO ~assscAS
ton is dead.
There are 1O2 miles Of streets open in
San Francisco.
Illinois is to have . new Capital -
Springfield, to cost So, OOO, 900.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is in hn 10Th
year. His bride is said to be about ~.
The new territorial seal Of Wyomink
bears the device, 'sLet US have peace.
The Total receipts during tho CaIifor-
MIA State Fair for admission at the Park
and Pavilion, amounted to 81, $50.
Americans 10 London have passed res
olutions thanking. Prince Napoleon for
his recent democratic speech.
The Atlantic and Paci6s TslegEanhss
line leading into Stockton has been sold
to the Western Union Company.
A druggist offers $50, 1000 for the priv
ilege Of advertising for year ON the
fence about the New York postof6ce.
The English Bank at San Francisco
under control of ex-senator Latham, has
increased its capital to $3, SOC, 900.
Hon. Edward Burke, Of New Hamp-
shire, will edit the rcsuscitated Ma
tionat hsteHigencer.
Hudson City, N. Y, contemplates
monument to the great Hendrick, who
gave his name to the city.
Eugene still fingers at the birthplace
fingers in her husbands bony parts.
COL Nelson, late Of Camp Supply, In
dian Territory, reports everything quiet
there.
Miss Bessie Cheever, Of New York, u
the reported .tiaacce Of Phil Sheridan.
Professor Boehm, one Of the most eel
ebrated surgeons of Berlin; has just died
from blood poisoning, contracted while
dissecting.
One of the outgoing Bishops Of the
Irish Church is ninety mine years old.
He won't resign his see, although he re-
signed his hear some years ago.
/ J. Ross Brown is to do China mp IN
magazine articles.
Roberts, the billiardist, is q, bankrupt.
He goes to pocket in vain.
The Rev. who tied the Gordian knot
for Commodore Vanderbilt got $500.
The Rothschilds have recently begun
to purchase United States bonds, and Will
invest 500, 600, 900 therein.
The New York Sun suggests that only
Chinese laborers should be employed
during the heated term, for the reason
that they are coolies.
IA gnest as s.r.sez> nisAoak- Alasse
silver handled dinner knife for . pocket
handkerchief A police pointed out his
error.
Among the attractions advertised At
the Arkansas hot springs, the other day,
we noticed bear fight, gander pulling,
barn dance, etc. Good place for i'm
valids.
Flattering accounts still continue to
arrive ia relation to the Loon Creek
mines.
4 At the editorial convention in Wiscon-
sin. intoxicating drinks wers almost
wholly banished from the meetings and
excursions.
Emigrants slip through Canada to the
United States like water through seive.
Of Z .691 who reached Toronto in Jane,
only TIT remained in Canada.
The Virginia City papers say every
l nay AAuko ACk0b 08O w WGB0 AIA
agree that White Pine il rich, but i'm
mense sums Of money are required to de-
veiop the mines.
Several young ladies living in Louis
: vile, Nevada county, have become para
lytic from the use Of an imported face
powder, in which there 10 large proper
ton Of lead.
i London, September 10.-The Morning.
: Post says the Pope il about to make great
efforts to convert the negroes Of Africa.
Two hundred are now studying for the
priesthood.
An old negro recently returned to Co
lumbia, Ga, after atwo years residences
in Liberia He says the negroes hsd
better stay in America, - Liberia Il nc'
good country to settle in, - things
look very dark there.
Dispatches from India state that hall
of the Municipal Council Of Siagon
Cochin China, win hersafter b chosen
from French and Americans born ii The
country, while natives and Chinsse sre
] made eligible to the Council
Q The Russian government Is busily en-.
! gagged preparing for tho Univsrsal Expo
, sition to take place next year q St Pc
8 tersburg. The edifce will be built upor
y the model Of the Crystsl Palaces, md 81
: the same gigantic dimensions, and Il q
! cost 81 ,000, 900.
The custom of comforting titlss com
!. menced with the Goths, aflsr they hasl
: conquered part Of Europe, who Tswar
ded their best military men with titlsr