The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-01-22
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A Mississippi nef3ro worked shares, but got |
90 nufin,'' becauseA said he, !" worked for de
seventh, and q onI4 made de ffth-crop short"
Families of real position not jealous of it /;
but upstairs consfantly guarding their respect
ability.
locomotive at pm average speed of thirty
miles hour, wou reach the moon in eleven
| months, and the sur in three hundred and fifty
two years.
| An old lady on ain not far from Lafayette,
hearing the breaksp Ean sing out &c Eubanks CUT
sailed to the door n asked " is he hurt much?''
/ The Queen of Ell land presents pounds
| to a poor woman wsb presents her husband with
five children at BIZ 5th.
| gentle young lady of Mason county. Iowa,
has been fined So for stoning the schoomaster.
DIR. Shurtlif, elected Mayor of Boston, says
q he believes in Boston first and politics long
way afterwards"
Calcraft, the u ldon hangman, has been re-
tired account I'D age. The choker himself
at last choked ofsbs senity.
"Whateis str SOC" The class looked blank,
except sma Roy, who said he could tell.
The schoolmarm I him proceed. cit beats
two pairs.'
Immediately esiIe his death, Albert D. Rich
ardson had obts sgra a large interest in the Chi
cago Repu5lican 8SseLd was to have become its
chief editor "a
The Postmsste.ss General says that the abuse of
the franking privilege costs the nation TIVE mil
lions of dollars annually. Then, why not stop it
Ths New York atlas says that some magma
nimity exists in the police force of that city. Two
of its members have gone to stealing in person,
but the rest let the thieves do it for them.
At Atchison, Kansas, grief-stricken mother
took leave of her dead baby as follows g Fare
|. well, little darling, farewell I must give you
up now; but I'll meet you in heaven-you bet"
A young girl of the town lately taken from
her house in Louisville, by party of ruffans,
stripped of her clothing, and tarred and feather
ed. like atrocity has never been heard of in
the history of our country.
In a recent conference with his congregation,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher quoted the saying of
Dutchman in these words If my foresight
} was good my hindsight, should do great
many things better than I do 1t is the msfor-
tune of most people that their foresight is not
good as their hindsight.
Galigani says medical statistics establish the
following points of interest to the ladies First
that since stays have been abandoned the annual
mortality amongst females has diminished by Is
d, per cent; and, second, since the overlooking
of the head with chignons, brain fevers have in
5 creased 724 per cent.
Kansas papers grievously complain of depreda-
tions upon the mails. They think the thefts are
l committed tho line of the Missouri Pacific
e Railroad. Much money has recently been taken.
o Some of the Minnesota farmers do not pay their
debts. A paper in that State-the Mankato
Union-says the farmers os Blue Earth county
are in debt to Mankato, for store goods and for
: machinery alone, to the amount of quarter mil
e lion dollars.
The Indian Bureau has official reports from the
Navajo agency, stating that the Indians have
u received their annuity goods and presents of
goats and sheep from the Government, which
has had the effect of Strengthening the relations
of peace.
|. In the western part of Tama county, Iowa,
|, there is band of Indians numbering two hun
e dred and ixty-eight, who occupy four hundred
= and nineteen acres of the best land in the Iowa
y river valley, purchased with their own money al
= different periods.
The Alexandria (Mnn.) Post says the fur bus
n mess has been very lively of late. The catch o
:, muskrats is much larger than last season, and
greater than for number of years past Invest
{, ments in traps have yielded good return thi.
: year. The Scandinavians nearly all trapping
HI anu udNe ueSh feiy SuSSSSsioA'
). A large railroad meeting for San Diego county
o was held New San Diego on the night of Dec
:, . 27th, in favor of road from San Diego to Sar
. Barnardino and Los Angeles and on the Sd paral
y lei route. The meeting was addressed by Col
: Sedgwick, of the Memphis and Ell Paso Railroad
General Howard, of Los Angeles, and others
The action was favorable.
: Lotta cleared $4,000 by her recent seye
n weeks engagement in New York.
q The pretty girls employed in the Treasury De
- partment are called " Revenue Cutters
a. An Ohio girl who wanted to buy guitar string.
m asked for "feline intestnes for lyrical purposes.
The Tennessee house appears to be in favor Q
~ Woman Suffrage Woman appears to be risin
stock in the market.
u Mungen, the repudiating Democratic Congress
\ man from Ohio, is said to his election to th
:. fact that he is the most popular fiddler in hi
district
~ 1t is said that the Rev. Petroleum Y. Nash
ei has established a whisky shop in New York. H
. says the dove has stopped his travels, havin
= found n place where water is.
az The Rev. Everett L. Hale is announced .
editor of the new magazine, which is to be estal
en- lished in New York in opposition to Harper
ct 1t is to be called The Old and the Neo.
an A correspondent of the Chronicle says that
ce lantern and six shooter indispensable article
y. of wearing apparel in Sacramento after dark.
TO accomplish sefuI dress" six or ten pound cal
non will be necessary.
Id, 'sDoes pa kiss you because he loves your" il
Gu quircd snubbys nosed urehin of his matern
u ancestor, the other day. g To be sure, sonny
no why ?" "Well, think he loves the cook to-
for he kissed here more than forty times last SUI
- day when you was gone to meeting"
= A father lately dropped his daughter and O
= umbrella from a Jersey City ferry boat into Il
= I. water. A ferryman rescued the young lady, Il
old gentleman confning his attentions to the un
Z: brella.
co The editorial table of the Yale Literary Nag
zine is now thirty-four years old, and one hui
;. dred and thirty-fve editors have worked at it.
in The total receipts of the Illinois State Treasul
IL from December 1st, 1858, to December 1st 1s6