The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-10
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

prontaDIe Independence Betge Is mar
riageable maiden of seventeen, who also
owns an estate wor til 100000 francs
The placers at Florence City are not
yet worked out. There is plenty of
ground yet that will pay from six to
eight dollars per day to the hand.
Two Indians, one Flathead and the
other Spokane, fought duel near
Helena short time ago. Cause, woman.
Both combattants killed.
The Idaho Statesmen says that labor
is wanted at Alturas and other points in
that Territory. Some of the quartz
mills cannot run for want of hands.
At the Olympia Land Office the total
amounts entered under the different acts
of Congress make 25,214 77-WO acres.
The Republicans in Washington Ter
ritory are in a general row about dele
gate to Congress, and are evidently pre-
pairing to let a Democrat carry off tie
prize.
Three -fourths of an acre of land in
Georgia (planted with cotton) has yielded,
in year nearly $500 profit, or at the
rate of $500 per acre. The ground was,
of course, carefully cultivated and tended
What future looms up for the Southern
people, if they will only be wise and ina
dustrious in the use of the splendid aa-
vantagcs which nature has given them
An officer of the English navy, Ingle-
fIniH hos Il
ships by the pressure of the water in
which the vessel floats. The apparatus
is of course, below the water line, and i.
can be controlled from any part of the
vessel. The Captain, while sitting in
the cabin of the largest iron clad, with a
compass beside him can steer her with
his thumb and finger.
A London (England) telegram dated
April 4th, is to the effect that an Alex
andria dispatch says another attempt to
assassinate the Viceroy of Egypt has
been discovered and frustrated \ load
cd bomb was found under his chair in
the theatre and removed before it ex-
ploded. A large number Of suspected
persons have been placed under arrest.
A Philadelphia telegram of the 4th
inst. says: A heavy robbery was COM
mitted at the St. Johns Safety Fund
building to-day. The watchman left the
building at SIX o'clock this morning and
returned at six o'clock tonight. He
found the safe broken open and its entire
contents, amounting to $4,000 or $780,
90 in value gone. Over 100000 was
available funds in greenbacks, etc.
In Andys farewell address" the word
Constitution" occurs thirty-one times,
CONSTITUTIONAL eleven times, and Gun
seventeen times He was
bound to leave the Constitution and the
flag in the hands of the people.
Major Bradley, formerly Of Stockton,
Cal, has $4,000 head of cattle in the
region of Elko, scattered about in droyes
of from 1000 to 1900 head. The hills
for miles around are said to be alive
with cattle; they are literally cattle
upon thousand hills" The White
Pine folks need fear no scarcity of beef
The Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
Dunn, was born in New Orleans, of free
parents. He has been in business in
that city many years, is well educated,
speaks the English language perfectly,
including every eth, has considerable
is full black, over six feet
high, and broad and stout in proportion.
The Kansas City Bulletin favors its
readers with 'sromance in real life"
A young lady, the daughter of widow
residing in Hannibal, recently cloped
With fascinating young gentleman from
Kansas City-the lover robbed one of
his male associates OF 5000 to defray the |
expenses of tho bridal tour.
A miniature locomotive, perfect in all /
is parts, carved out of wood, with no
,ther tools than an ak and jack knife, |
vas exhibited at Columbus, Ohio. The |
work was executed by a colored boy,
hardly fifteen years of age, late slave !
A patron of the Portsmouth, N. H.,
Journal has appeared in that office every
Friday afternoon, for the past thirty
light years, with his pennies to pay for
hat paper.
Madame Olympic Audouard, who has
,een travelling in this country, says she
ikes the women of America much better
han the men. Who doesn't?
A. Z. Upton, postmaster at Elkader,
owa, inherits $4,000 from bachelor
lncle, who lost his life on the ill-fated
teamer United States.
A Californian, writing from White
Pine, says he has not struck claim yet,
because he has as much as he can do
o cut wood enough to keep warm"
!" My notion of wife at forty" said
Terrold, 's is that a man should be able
o change her, like bank note, for two
An Austrian hair dresser cut his throat,
,ut it healed up, and the operation gave
lin q tenor voice which cclipses all
ivals.
The Babylonians used to sleep on skins
lied with water. In these latter times
omc men sleep on skins filled with
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