The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-10-22
VARIOUS HTEbas.

/ The Herald has a report that Hon. J.
J. Hoffman is to be appointed Surveyor
General Of Oregon.
/ Two hundred and sixty seven cases
hare been commenced for the approach.
ling term of the Circuit Court at Portland.
/ The p. T Company are lengthening
the hull Of the Fannie Patton nineteen
feet, and improving the model l0f her hull.
Judge Sawyer has tclegraphsd Judge
Deadly that he will attend ths U $. Cir
cult Court at Portland.
Garitaldi has been appointed to com-
mand the regulur forces in the Vosges,
with brigade Of the Garde Mobile.
Boston has resident who kas started
ON his second century with fair pros>
pect Of completing It. There 10, Of course
no inducement to leave Boston to 60 to
heaven.
A current Of wind or heated air passed
over South Carolina cotton field, the
other day, and, within few hours, the
whole crop had whitened and died.
The largest steamboat ever launched
on Western river, is now being built at
Jacksonville, Ky. Her extreme length
is $50 feet.
The wife of farmer residing near
Troy, N. Y, was surprised, few days
since, while breaking an egg, to find that
it contained another egg Of much small
ler size.
An old farmers description of point
less preacher was "A good man, likely
but he will rake with the teeth up
A runaway husband was so cut up at
being brought back by the police to his
matrimonial duties, that he hanged him>
self with his snspenders in Louisville the
other day.
A Distressing Cough causes the friends
of the sufferer as much pain as the suf-
erer himself. DR.. Visfar's Bdlsan, Of
. Wild Cherry will certainly cure coughs,
colds, arrest consumption. and that speed
, ily When did it ever fail
, A woman In Cato5sa county (Georgia)
0 is reported to have recently shouted her.
G self TO death under the influence of ex-
h eessive religious excitement.
: Twelve bridesmaids. twelve groomsmcn
D and twelve ushers are TO marry couple
$ in New York next month in church
r where the decorations are to cost over
J $1,000.
: 4 hog entered grocery store in Drun-
E swick (Missouri) recently, when dog
y attacked him, bit off his tail, and then
! seized the hog by the car and led 1t
: shrieking back to its quarters in the rear.
: The dog then returned to the store, pick
I'd up the tail and carried it out to the
hog.
f From the Guard: Mr.. James Hum
). phreys, of this place. had his leg broken
III Friday last. near the ankle, by tall
l. from a mule, which he was attempting to
r break. Mr.. Calvin Cox, on Thursday.
had his shoulder dislocated by tall from
II wagon. DIR Staplcs attended both the
d above cases, and the patients are doing
. we'll.
! The Mexican claims, with all the ac.
is companying documents piled up, would
= make a very respectable public building.
i There are neatly 1.lUo on one side, and
e l 600 claims ON the other. The total
amount of claims of American citizens
against Mexico, including that of the
Woodh"n~e Tehuantcpec Company, is
Is 1857 .9U7 $40.
!, A train on the South Side Long Is
land) Railroad ran six miles in five min
i ntes recently.
h \ Weroh cable dispatch from Tour.
= says it is strictly true that after the los,
i. of 200 900 stand OF arms at Sedan, ths
French Government seut to England t,
j purchase as n,any rifles. They succeeded
. IN getting some, but nothing like tho
!, uumber wanted. France now offers to
, buy any number OF rites in America u
=, 25U francs each, delivered at some por
=. IN France.
g In S"iss.ns $50 houses were burned I.
I'd the ground. \ terrible struggle occur
oi red there. No quarter was shown. Tn,
ID Duke Of Meckicnburg is said to hav,
"a, wcp, at the slaus hfer, refused to order al
re assault, aud asked the French to capitu
10 late In the name of humanity.
IN Fresh proposals Of peace nrc rumorcd
lie in which Luxombour1, Aisace and Lor
rain are to be ncutral States under Prime
il Henry Of Orange Nassau
as 1t costs three cents less to raise poun,
OK nf cotton now than before emancipation
+ was proclaimed.
tn An old agricultural laDorer in Enclan
er tried muscular method of evangclizin
I'm his family. Being demonstrated with b.
.ot the pastor for not bringing up" his boy
II. as he should. he replird Il dinnow o,
n tbs. sir; order 'em down to pray nigh
=, and mornin', and when they won't &
~ down | knocks 'cm down and yet the
:. ain't good =
=. A young ruffian, who had violated hi
:. obligations as u member Of the Lodge o
-, Good Templars, ut Oswcgo. by appear
~ ing at meeting with bottle of whisky y
- added injury to insult afterward, whel
= called up for expulsion, by .expellin,
his quondam brothers from the roou
, = with u club.
IT'S An upper country paper reports tn
cd death OF Row. w. r. Roger in Grand
of Konde Valley, by accidental poisoning.
he The accidental part ct the fatal afiai
x. is reported to be administering &c opium
is. pills BY man named Hayden (who pre
Tossed to know something of medicine
", to cure nm attack of cholera morbus. Nj
re Hayden ought to be taught ia an effect
lse i've manner that poisoning is a crime