The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-10-15


com,nunicas sion, and to what points
More than fifty miles Of the Oregon q /
California Railroad, commencing at East !
Portland, is completed, and trains are
making daily trips over it The road
will he finished and the cars running to /
this citv in few weeks, and the hundred
mile stake (uinetcen miles south Of AL |
bauy). will be reached by the 1st of next
January. The road is to connect Port |
land, Oregon, with Sacramento, Califor- /
MIA Between fifty and one hundred
miles Of the California end of the road
has been constructed, and the early COM
pletion ofEthe entire line is looked for.
81. What prices do the following arti-
clcs command
Tea, 72e@s1 %; sugar, 10m18c
kerosene, 81 T; syrups, 75cQ1s1; coffee, /
2oc; salt, 24(d3e; beef, on foot. 5(46c;
flour, per bbl. 81 so; tobacco S5c(0S1 /
vinegar, per gal, see; pork, &c net,
35. What are ordinarily good cows,
horses and sheep worth?
Cows, s25055; horses, s4GGg25o ;
sheep, 81 25G32.
36. OF what nativity are the settlers in
your vicinity
The great majority are Americans
TERRIBLE STATE OF TnINGs.-The
correspondent Of the London Iehgraph,
writing from Carlsrnhe, on August 10Th,
says:
1t is evident from the care with which
the troops have been disposed around
Metz, that Marshal Bazaue, with all the
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ed withir the walls The town is now
side General Steinmetz commands with
the First aud Seventh Army Corps; on
the north are the Saxons (Twelith Army
MacMahon.-Ed ]; and Prince Frcder-
lex Charles, with the Second, Third,
Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and
Eleventh Army Corps, together with the
Guards 1.-THE Guards were in reserve at
the battle Of Sedan.-Ed.l encireling it
on the south aud west Putting the whole
army of Marshal Bazane say at 100000
men, and the original garrison at, say
10,000, we have a total of 0,000 troops
add to this number 10000 sick and woun-
ded, and $4,000 Inhabitants Of the town
aud surrounding districts, now within the
walls. and we see that there must lie at
least 100000 men to be fed within the
beleagured town Of Metz. What is TO
become Of the army ? Relief is out of the
question, and either i must cut passage
through and make good its escape, or
speedily be reduced by want, disease and
famine Already deserters describe the
state of things existing there as terrible
in the extreme. Metz IS not large place
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the garrison for some time but With the
great accession to their numbers that has
taken place, their supplies viii soon be
exhausted.
OCEAN NAYIeATIoS.-It is reported
that a prominent New York ship owner
has offered to bet 500 0o0 that he has a
steamer which can Ecat By twenty six
hours any steamer which has yet crossed
I the Atlantic. Also that the steamer is of
American buill, and vii! be commanded
by an American and that, if the bet
should be accepted, it would enable him
to show the world something new about
American steamers.
The Morgan County (Iudiana) Gazette
tells of a man in that county who was re-
Gently married to his divorced wife, after
a separation of twenty years. After the
divorce the woman moved West, and
! there married German, who went into
the late war and was Killed, Two chill
dren were the fruits of the second mar
riage, and none of the first The woman
returned to Morgan county short time
since, and was reunited to her first hus-
band, who had lived single during her
absence.
Sullivan County (Ohio) is the home of
Estella Whitcomb, thirteen years Of age.
and who for three years past has for her
own choice been engaged in regular farm
work, in plowing,. sowing, reaping, now
ing, and narrowing, as well as driving and
managing horses. Last Summer she a
ked about forty acres of hay, besides
doing her share toward moving, loading
and pitching it.
In indianapolis, an orphan girl aged
80 years, attempted to poison herself last
week, because youth Of twenty summers
named Purcell, for whom she had waited
/ from his childhood, declined to become
her husband Purcell was asked to pre-
vent a future catastrophe, but he replied
that q he wasn't agoing to be scared int
it."
Machinery has recently been invented
IN England which weaves from the hail
of cats and rabbits sort of velvet tissue
, distinguishable from silk, but not infcrio
in fneness and beauty.
Table Rock, Republican township il
Siskiyou county has only one Chinaman
and that one is employed on the ranch o
a prominent Democrat.
. Mrs. jeanette Skies has sued for di
vorce from Writ Skies, Olive Logan
agent. 1t is not stated whether Olive i
IN any way implicated.
Two old blind men were burned t
}; death in their houses in Boston, Mass
1t &c eptember 23d; both were hard drinkers
The people of Kokomo, Indiana, kno,
haf fla.aNx 4l,1.. I. i