The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-03-05
NEWS ITEMS.

A woman up-country killed skunk
with a butcher-knife. She says the bat +
tie is not always to the strong.
Ireland is at last satisfied, and has con-
sented TO receive the Land Reform bill as
introduced by Gladstone.
The Pittsburg police court has so much /
business that it has to sit on Sundays. /
The Lord High Chamberlain of the 7
King of the Sandwich Islands is an
Irishman.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell has com
menced the practice of medicine in
London.
The Queen of Prussia gives $4,000
year III charity. The people give it all +
back in taxes.
Turtle soup made from the hind I
portion of frogs, is the latest novelty in
Paris.
One thousand women were found by |
Brazilian scouting party in starving
condition.
SIS 700 Of the :. Ocean Bank" bonds
that were stolen, have b1en sold to the AS
sistant Treasurer in New York.
O. l.. O. Hughes, an editor of color,
has been admitted to the editorial conven-
ton of Pennsylvania as member.
It is said that Olive Logan is on her
way to California, and at last accounts
was at Omaha lecturing to large audi
ences.
A young man in Stonington tried to
clean his gun by putting a red hot poker
down the barrel. He can't find one of
his fingers.
Boston has outlawed the wooden abo-
risines in front of the tobacco stores.
Panama will be lighted with gas about
the end of March The rate charged
will be IS per | 900 feet.
The aggregate number of dogs in the
United States is given at 6,000,00
The New York Legislature has a mem
Der in it who has served thirty years
without break.
Mrs. Horace Cooke is profting by her
husbands wicked conduct, the church
subscribing liberal sums Of money for
her.
The Paris Gou1ots, as an inducement
to each fresh subscriber for six mouths
offers one large and two small bottles of
champaign, accompanied by an ingenious
patent for bottling wine.
ssIf people knew beforehand all the
misery it brings says a japanese poet,
"there would be less going out with
young ladies to look at the flowers at
night
A county in Iowa paid s2,7o0 for a
safe for the purpose of securing its loose
change. At the beginning of the year its
treasurer had just eleven cents to put
into it.
There is sensation preacher in Iowa,
who conducts his Sunday services in a
billiard saloon, opening church with beer
all round, and closing with a treat for the
congregations He draws immense audi
ences.
A Sacramento bar-keeper threw bot
tie of whisky at loafer who was bother
ing him. The fellow caught it on the
fly, extracted the cork, tasted it and OBJ
served. q Whoo this is poor stuff
can't you give US something better 2"
Of the $50, 900 school teachers in the
United States. liz, 500 are females. The
city of Boston has 553 females to 62
male teachers New York city has 2,206
female to 176 males employed in that
occupation.
In New Orleans there is a man of
whom the papers say: ale commenced
his career as pirate, 102 years ago, and
now at the age of 11S, he is a dock rat
and river theft"
The Board of Brokers in New York
have been somewhat puzzled to furnish
Inta fyrn
brokers who figure "on Change" They
cannot class them as s'bulls'' or q BEARS
but propose to call them COWS or s'she
bears"
The opinion is gaining ground that it
will be impossible to get the funding bill
through Congress this season. Senators
who have canvassed pretty thoroughly
both branches of Congress say there is
no chance whatever for the passage of
such BILL
Is 'Ighness Prince Harthur, says the
houtskirts hof Washington hare hinferior
to those hof Hottawa. ssThey can't ave
hanny hale in this dod blarsted country
because they 'aven't got the ops :! you
know
A carpenter at work in Sacramento,
Cal, squirted his tobacco juice on the
fine cloak of lady passing by. He
tried an apology but that failing. he
paid her fifteen dollars and went on with
his work.
On the 25th ult., an infant child of
Clinton Kelley, who lives about four
miles south Of Hillsboro, was terribly
burned by crawling backwards into the
fro Az lact aoonupfs n xrao vtilT oliya
but no hopes were entertained of its
recovery.
Rich silver mines discovered in Ky.