The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-10-01
NEWS ITEMS.

reopened under the charge of Al. Iieber
and D. Holton, two of the most popular
boys in Portland We predict big day
for the house unoer tLeir management.
A joint stock company has been or
ganized in Portland, for the purpose of
building new hotel on Front street
said hotel to be two hundred feet square.
The Bulletin says that man named
Drumheiler, living in Walla Walla val
ley, the present season cut, from fourteen
acres, one hundred tons of hay-over
seven tons to the acre.
The new depot now in course of com
pletion for the o. & C. Railroad at East
Portland, is to be one of the largest and
most imposing in the State It will be
between seven and eight hundred feet in
length, over one hundred feet wide, and
the platform will be twenty FIVE feet
above low water mark.
The divers" (submarinc armor wear
ers), who are engaged on the rocky
foundations for the piles of The new de
pot Ben llolladay is building opposite
Portland work two hours in the forenoon
and two hours in the afternoon, each
man. under water. For this service
each diver gets $50 per day.
OF one hundred children attcndirg z
two primary schools in Nevada, on the
18th September, seventy were taken
with the measles and sent home.
a quartz ledge recently discovered
near San Rafael valley is pronounced
very rich \ piece taken from the
ledge weighing sixteen ounces, contained
fourteen ounces Of pure gold. The
excitement in that neig ighborhood is intense.
TIE Owyhce -iroIanche reports that
jeff. Standifcr and party are prospecting
two hundred miles north of Missoula,
where rich diggings are reported to have
+ been found.
The idea of the cession of the island
of Cuba by Spain to the United States
is said to be gaining ground n Madrid
y dispatch from Bombay reports that
/ tie German corvette Medusa, and the
French corvet Duplex, have made ar
rangements for naval duel, in the Jap
anese waters at an early day
Mr.. Wm. Bond, of Erie county, Penn
<ylvania, who recently arrived in Port
land, comes here for the purpose of pur
chasing 10000 acres of land, upo,
which about fifty sturdy old Pennsylvani;
Dutch farmers, with their families, inten,
to settle
Washington Territory has population
Of 23,45o, as shown by the census jus
completed. Ten years ago she had bu
II, SOL
Says the Bulletin The Board O
-. Commissioners appointed by the Pres
dent to report upon the receival or re
lection of each twenty miles section {
the Oregon and California Railroad
Messrs. Gcary, Fisk and Savicr-con
pletcd their inspection Of the second set
tion Of twenty miles on Tuesday. The
report will be dispatched to the prope
Department at Washington, aud frol
that source will be made public,
Private accounts from Havana repol
the Harding of the steamer .Salrado
completed successfully The expedition
lists and the greater portion of the arm
are now safe in the interior. The vesst
was leaky aud unscaworthy and was abal
) doned to the Spaniards-
g. w Clark, we'll known Ohio rive
, steam boat pilot, fell down in a fit Of ap
plcxy in a cigar store, at St. Louis, Mo
September 23d, and died almost instantl
The Soldiers Union of Ohio, Peunsy
; vania aud Virginia, assembled in o.
Camp Brown, Wheeling, Va, Scptemb,
| % Col Curtis W Vaughn was clccte
t President.
. J was robbed of $50 900 worth of dl
goods, on the night Of September 2ls
Burglars removed the plumber with
horse, and have escaped
The District Attorney Of Philadelph
t has been instructed from the Treasul
E Department to appeal all cases involve
in the recent decision of Judge Stror
u to the Supreme Court of the Unite
States.
The statements about the imperfe
C armament of the Notifications of Pan
il are confirmed by the evacuation Of Vi
. cennes and the removal of the old sty
guns to the city But a small porti,
of tho wood in the ncighborhood of Pal
! has been destroyed. Those at Clermo
already afford shelter to the Prussians.
Prussian soldiers praise the bravery
the French highly. They relate that
!, company Of troops of the line, not the ia
: tastical windy Turcos, were reduced
q fifteen men, at the battle of W eissenbur
and when asked to surrender replied wi
. a volley into the German ranks. L
a next moment saw every man of tn
i heroic band stretched bleeding to t
ground.
t The Idaho Telegraph Company W
incorporated in Boise City, with capt.
stock Of $3.50 900. The object of the col
t, pany is to build a line of telegraph fro
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