The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-12-04
NEWS ITEMS

Assistant Adjutant General Elliot
of South Carolina, cowhided
the Governors assistant private secretary,
(white), recently, on account
Of jealousy of the latters' attentions to
Mrs. Elliot.
The s1icide of Lord Chief Justice
Clerk of Scotland was caused by chagrin
at the discovery that he owed his seat in
Parliament to bribery.
Mr.. Stewards speeches in Alaska, Vic.
toria ard Oregon have been collected and
published in pamphlet form.
1t is considered certain in medical
circles in Brussels that poor Carlotta will
not outlive the present year.
went to sleep. leaving his candle in the
bung hole of powder keg, which he
supposed was nail keg. His dreams
were. troubled by an explosion, and he
was blown all over the ranch.
It is suggested that Young Kits, ,sof
Baltimore (aged 107), who has been pc
titioning the Council for fees due since
the Revolutionary war, should put the
sum into bank, for use when he grows
old
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
at its recent term in Worcester, unmar-
ried fourteen couples, ten of the petition
ers being the wives. A Maine Court re-
Gently divorced sixteen couples in one
county.
Scientists say it is not true, as gener-
ally supposed, that the act OF freezing
al
1t generally does extrude coloring matter,
but not organic impurities.
Three consecutive decisions in the
Massachusetts, Courts, in the same case,
seem to make the law pretty clear, that
if the owner of a horse with the glanders
permits him to range so as to infect other
horses, the owner owner of the diseased
horse is liable for the damage that may
ensue.
A Northumberland woman looked
through keyhole, and some one on the
other side thrust piece of wire through
into her eye sDcath by misadventure"
was the coroner's verdict.
No less than 100 persons have been
converted through the open-air sermons
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion of Washington City, during the past
summer.
'sGrandpa, did you know that the
United States has been in the habit of
encouraging and acknowledging tories ?''
What kind of tories 2" q Territo-
I ries :"
A Minister was walking out one day,
passed two little boys, one of whom made
a bow. IS he turned his back he heard
the following amusing conversation ::
"Why, John, didn't you know that was
Parson M-?" q Yes, of course did." :"
'' Well, why did you not make bow to
him." Why, my mother don't belong
to his church ~
Several of the London papers had their
articles on Lord Derby in type before he
died, and some of them printed obituary
notices in advance. One weekly remark
ed that the Earl was not dead, but that
he would be, probably, before the paper
reached its readers, and then proceeded
to speak of his Lordship in the past
! tense.
The lady leader of Sunday school
choir in Deer Lodge, Montana, lasely
started the tune of g Marching up Zion's
Hill' on SO exalted a pitch that none of
the little voices could reach the upper
notes At the close of the first verse
this young lady turned to the superin-
tendent of the school and inquired
How is that for high, anyhow 2" and
then calmly started the tune on lower
key.
We have now enough iron clads in the
neighborhood of Cuba to blow the whole
Spanish navy out of the water if it was
concentrated there. The object of the
administration is to have large force on
the West Indian station while trouble
exists between Spain and Cuba, SO that
should any emergency arise whereby our
Government might become involved, We
could make short work of the Spanish
navy.
The following from the Solano (Cal.)
Democrat, is pleasing specimen of the
California style. The person referred to
is Judge of that county: We tell thi.
self-confessed coward, this moral lepe1
this political shyster, this burlesque upon
manhood this miscellaneous abortion, this
outrageous purp, he shall not erect his
avowed n-combativeness into barri
cade behind which to skulk and hurl his
stink pots at US.
In the process of cleaning the bed o
the Scrpentine river in the Regent
Park, London, a few days ago, a curious
and successful experiment was made TO
the purpose of preserving the fish. Thi
experiment was the netting of the fisl
and their removal to a neighboring pond
, Mr. Frank Buckland, Inspector of Fish
cries, directed the operations. Hundred
of Dream, roach, carp and tonch wer
taken at each haul of the net. The roacl
were very numerous and of large size
some weighing over five pounds. A lax
trout measureing eight inches in lengtl
: was captured. This was one of some fey
dozen let into the pond about three year
ago. Many of the other fish taken ha
t been let in about six years ago As th
t fish were landed they were placed in wat
3 ering carts and conveyed to Roun
! Pond,' kensington Gardens, where the
! were safely deposited, very few fish dyin
!, on the journey.