The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-01-15
NEWS ITEMS.

ing in Connecticut.
sylvanus Cobb, Jr.. the champion story-grinder
of America, is in Boston inebriate asylum.
Awful Gardners mind has become impaired,
and Cough lectured for his benefit at Cooper In
stitute.
The Harvard publish card, in which
they say the race was fairly contested, and they
were fairly beaten.
A Wisconsin couple quarreled about whether
there should be saleratus in Hapjacks,. ,. and ap.
piled for divorce.
The Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, is
| the first Christian sovereign who has visited Je-
rusalem since the crusades.
| A young lady, aged seventeen, has been arrest
ed in Buffalo for bigamy. She began marrying |
at the age of fourteen.
| Senator Salisbury has relinquished the flowing |
bowl.
English retail booksellers have filed orders for
80 900 copies of Tennyson's volume.
The Queen of England has designated Lord
Lytton for the Grand Cross of st. Michael and ST.
George vacated by the death of Lord Derby.
A jealous Michigan youth of thirteen stabbed
and killed a playmate because he threatened to
s.cut him out - in the affections Of the girl he
| loved.
Two Japanese youths have entered the Naval
Academy at Annapolis.
Fields, the Pennsylvania murderer, took dose
of vinegar and molasses to cure throat half
an hour before he was hanged
Henry Keep, a deceased New Yorker, is to
have a mausleum erected to his memory at W ater-
town, in the shape of $75 200 Greek cross. This
will Keep his memory green.
The whole course of the Suez canal, from the
Mediterranean to the Red Sea, is 100 miles. 1t
has an average width of 32S feet, the width at
the base is 246 feet, and the depth of water, 26
feet.
The cheap ''London Daily Telegraph employs
five ten cylinder Hoe presses, and can strike off
about 136,0O per hour.
"Dr. Parr,' said young student once to the
old linguist, 'let's you and write a book"
every well, replied the Doctor, put in what
I know and all that you don't knew, and we'n
rake big one.''
A Chnaman's opinion of trial by jury One
of the men was silent the other spoke all the
; time and the twelve sages condemned the man
who had not said anything.
ST. Louis is talking of Worlds Fair, which
is intended to head off similar enterprise at
Washington.
The King of Bavaria is eminently fitted for his
throne, by having two three epileptic fits a
. day.
Texas is still hard country. 1t has popula-
: ton of 100000, and 3S4 murders were committed
: in nine months of last year.
A Detroit woman concealed twenty pounds of
: butter under her clothing, intending to smuggle
: it over to Canada. The butter melted, and, o
2 Lord
7 Said coxccmb to young lady "a If it's not
: love feel, pray what is it ?'' Perhaps said
: Judge Proonies,'' is the way the name of the
e San Francisco Police Magistrate is printed in
@ Cincinnati.
f 1t is important to actors and other public
o speakers 20 know that the human cannot dis
h tnguish sound from another, unless there is
! an interval of one-tenth of second between the
; arrival of the sounds.
3 1t is said that Vanderbilt before his marriage
!, effected with palpitation of the heart. The
application of another palpitating heart has cured
!. him. 1t frequently does.
y A New York paper says there has been an ex-
y tensive importation of prize-fghters from Great
= Britain, who, having their functions suspended
- in that country by thepolice, come to this land o
liberty to mash muzzles, knock knobs, rattle rib:
: and draw claret.
~ case of wanton cruelty is reported. in the
= conduct of young woman who went all the way
: from New Jersey to India to marry Missionary
~ whom she had never seen, and who had neve
:. done her any harm.
A Democratic editor, in Missouri, finding wed
N ding cards. etc. on his table, wrote up the affai
in his best style, referring to the "far and blush
:. ing bride" and winding up with a choice poetica
70 extract. He was much disgusted the next day ol
~ learning that the parties were negroes.
T..n .l:.4 fha mo,
Z, neck of a bottle, bullet the cork, and thel
- bets that at twelve PAGES he will shoot away tn
" cork and let the bullet drop into the bottle.
III A person who advertises in a morning paper 70
Is clerk, holds out this inducement "a smal
" salary will be given, but enough of 'over work
ie will be given to make up the deficiency.
as Lieut. Hand, editor of the Dalles Nomntainee
as entered into partnership with Miss M. P. +
IL Grinnel, in San Francisco, on the 18th ult.
ne The Attorney General of Iowa has decided tha
a. Miss Julia c. Addington, recently elected Super
st. intendent of Common Schools for Mitchell count,
as in that State, has perfect right to perform tn
m duties of the office, and to collect pay for be
Is services.
ty Choice wheat in Portland brings 75c, Will
xt poorer qualities be had at 60 cents per bushe
nd An article on Spanish dictatorship, publishe
u Serrano the position of Dictator is probable.
lr- 1t is stated that Jem Mace and Tom Allen al
Id to fight in Canada or Louisiana soon.
nd On the 9Th, Edward Clark, of Covington, Ky
nd killed his three year old son by pointing gul
ly supposed to be empty, at his head and pullin
he the trigger. The gun proved to be loaded, ar
mt the charge of shot went through the boys hea'
M A large number of Josephite converts fro
Salt Lake settling at their old headquarters
Independence, jackson county, Missouri. The
h, propose to erect temple the old groun
ed They repudiate polygamy.
OF The Tribune's special says that there will pro
he ably be startling revelations regarding son
he of Johnson's officers at Now Yor
in Partial examination show that the accounts
~ one of the collectors will probably be short 5000
)ly 600.
OF The Board of Trade of Chicago has decided
er, construct another tunnel under the lake in tn