The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-05-28
News from Exchanges.
lIeasles is prevalent at. the Dalles.


cavalry horses in Lane couty.
Mr.. Litchfeld has discovered coal
bank near the Grand Ronde Indian Agen-
cy.
Jesse Applegate is surveying rail-
road route between Umpqua and Rogue
River Valley.
An Umpqua paper says card playing
has been introduced into one of the pub
lie schools of Douglas county.
The Dallas Republican says: The hay
crop this summer will be unusally heavy; /
probably better than for several years
past.
One John, Weleh for an assault upon a
woman at Cany envillc, was sentenced last
week to thirty dollars worth of county
Jail.
The Herald says f'Ben Holladay wants
friendly legislation" If so, where could
he get it so easily as from a Democratic
Legislature? Witness his success with
the one that sat at Salem in 1868.
A headless body, found near some
water in Arkansas, was deemed proper
subject of inquest. The jury returned
verdict of accidental drowning
The Western towns and cities are lib
eral in voting large sums to aid in the
construction OF railroads.
The Presbyterians and Episcopalians
of Los Angeles are fighting in the Courts
for the possession of church edifce.
1t is estimated that there will be half
a million of Texan cattle driven to Kan
sas this year.
One hundred Chippewa Indians have
offered their services to the canadian
Government in the Red River expedition.
The Wisconsin Legislature has char
tered an aggregate of 3, 800 miles of new
railway, to be built as soon as the s'stuff'
is got together.
Chief Justice Cole, of Iowa, favors wo-
mans suffrage, looking upon it as the
grand preventive for crime, lawlessness
and intemperance.
A duel in Indiana was averted by one
of the principals fainting when brought
to the scratch, the other magnanimously
refusing to ''shoot sick man.
Miss Lille Frisbie is an honorary mem
Der Of the Frisbie Guard, and appeared
in uniform at their recent parade in Val
lejo.
The London Times deplores the Wo
mans Rights movement in the House o
Commons Wednesday evening, and doe
not believe the women of England at al
, sympathize with it.
The Marysville (Cal.) appeal, says
, Governor Haight has commenced writing
his own political obituary. Up to thi
time he has completed two chapters, FL
ling about seven columns in the Stat
. Paper. Appearances would indicate tina
:, the termination of his political life
nearer ut hand than the conclusion of hi
+ obituary.
A French engineer has made an abb
t report on the economy of using lin
ground to fine powder, instead of slack
ing it in Jumps. He estimates the los
: in using Jumps at 25 per cent. Beside
: this saving of material, it is found tha
lime in powder is spread with create
facility, and the mortar thus made set
: quicker and is more solid.
G Lezurier, the man who was arreste
e for shouting +" Cayenne in the face @
n the Emperor Napoleon at review, ha
written penitent letter. pleading his ow
insanity. This is an improvement upo
S the favoFite American defense, for ou
. else urge the plea for them.
!, Miss Grundy," of the World, who
acknowledged to be good authority i
these matters, says Miss Blanche Butle
has hidden farewell to Washington socie
ty She will return next winter as
e Senator's wife The wedding will tax
1t place sometime in the summer, at he
n home in Lowell, Mass.
e The army worm has appeared in tt
vicinity of Marysville, and skinned tt
trees and gardens slick and clean. The
. attempted to cross the railroad brldg
'e but trains of cars killed large numbe
h and at one time when they were pile
70 three inches thich on the track, the loo
). motives wheels slid around as if grease
which required some work to get tt
'e train along g Yreke Journal.
The Eugene Journal of the 21st say.
b. 90 This week Messrs. G.. II. Hadley al
so H. G. Owen sold to some Germans, wi
came out from Chicago to purchase hom
III for themselves and friends, tract
r 1920 acres of land, few miles fro
Eugene City in this county. The pri
e. received was ST per acre, amounting
#, nearly 0,000. The purchasers start,
40 back to Chicago Immediately, and W
ry return during the summer and settle
to the lands with two or three hundred i
st dustrious Germans. We understand tn
he every one Of them are Republicans"
he The inhabitants of Georgetown, Co
he RADIO, have held meeting, and have S,
,ir emnly resolved: 1. That the people
cd the Easteru States know nothing abo
. Indians, or Indian warfare, or Indi
provocation 2, that Georgetown, Colo,
;. do, fully approves the .. Indian policy
a. of Gen. Sheridan 8, that " War to t
ne ne knife is the only way Of avenging t
eli many depredations that are being da
J.. committed on the border;" and 4, tt
ed We, of the West, are judges of what
in slaughter and useless bloodshed;" :" a
ay the inhabitants of Georgetown, Colorat
SO are about right.
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