The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-07-17
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NEWS PARAGRAPHS

The Democ ats in Alabama claim that
NIL their candidates for Congress were
or. ginal Union men, with one exception,
and his disabilities have been removed.
The forests il nearly all parts of the
State are on FIRE. In Southern Oregon
tile smoke is unusually oppressive.
j. III. Upton, who started the yamhill
Courier and Dallas Signal, will com.
mcnce the publication OF Democratic
weekly at Corvallis sooa-
The .Seatisez says that the owDsrs Of
the Malachi quartz ledge, on lightning
Guleh. in. Josephine county, have struck
exceedingly rich pay and expect to real-
izc handsome profit this summer.
Rnmors are current 1t WalIa Walla Of
the discovery Of new and rich usines-nexr
Pierce City, idaho.
Persons connected with the late Mon
tana Post are about to start q paper AZ
Deer Lodge, to be called the Sentinel.
Lieut.. Wann, who is appointed to re.
licve DIR. Newell, 1T Lapwai Reservation,
passed through Boise City on tho 7th
Instant.
A frc occurred at Blackfoos City,
Montana. on the 28th Of June, which
laid nearly. the whole place in nshcs-
Loss upwards of $40 600.
A man named John Weaver was ar.
rested at Walla Walla, last week. charged
| with plaliciously shooting horse be.
longing to S. NJ. Wait,
There arc inccn diaries in Helena. A
large number of business, men at that
place publish card offering $4,000 re.-
| ward for the detection of the gang.
A man named Woods murdered :.
man named Duifey, at Lewiston, Idaho,.
on tho 4th inst. Duffcy had half
breed daughter, concerning whom some
difficulty had arisen between him and
Woods. The murder was done with a
knife, the unfortunate man being literally
cut to pieces.
One of the emigrant agents of the
State of Minnesota has just returned
| from Europe, aud states that he has sue.
/ ceedcd in inducing $1,000 Swedes to
come to that State this year. This is
| what Que man has done for Minnesota IN
one year.
The bridge being built over the Mis-
souri, river at St. Charles, will be 2,2C0
feet in length, though the iron trestlc
work at each end will give it total
length Of 6,5O5 feet. Il will bo fifty
three feet above the highest water mark,
ninety-threc feet above low water, ard
| eighty7three feet above ordinary water.
/ The time fixed for its completion is JAN
uary /, 1870, and it will cost one million.
The Poorman mine at Owyhee has
completed shaft to the depth Of 400
feet Levels are already started, and
preparations are being made for running
out an unusual amount of rich ore from
the old 8. stand BY" The Poorman,
which has always yielded his millions, is
always failing but never fails.
Scward's reception in San Francisco
was grand affair. The Baietia says
, that with the exception of the denionstra-s
tion made upon the arrival of General
Scott, there never was a reception of o
national parsonage in that city which ap-
preached the present one in point Of Iop-
ular enthusiasm and rejoicing.
The Owyhec Tidal Wave says: A
, large lode of magnetic iron or lode sto, o
exists in Cape District, which, by its at
. traction, draws upon it tic lightnings of
thunderstorm The surface Of the ledge
, lies in solid Stag, blackened and glazed
Ike the cinders Of q blacksn,iths forge,
doubtless from the effects OF lightning,
which for ages has made this spo. it
target.
Eliza Haycraft, we'll known cyprian
q died at Utica. n. Y, on tho 9th, Of appo
$ plexy She left an estate valued At Over
100000. a94s ss
4 Governor Palmer, of Illinois, has re
ceivcd notice from the War Departmen
= that Secretary Rawlins has awarded
g SS5, 900 of the Congressional appropria
ton of 81 600, 900 for harbors aud river
d for the improvement Of the Illinois river
The Illinois Legislature appropriatet
J, 100000 for the same purpose at its las
session.
> Secretary Boutwell, has percmptoril,
e refused DR.. Mary Walker position j,
d the Treasury Department. s