The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-05
NEWS ITEMS.

take eHect at the end OF tue present term.
The last number of the Salem Farmer
has fine cut of Chester White pigs, and
promises hereafter to illustrate. Good.
Gov. Woods, has been ordained an
Elder in the Christian church.
The first twenty miles of Ben. Holla-
days road has been received, and the
lands accruing to the road withdrawn
from sale.
The remains found sometime since
near Glad Tldings, has been examined by
Mr.. Jesse Moreland. He thinks the
man was not more than 35 years old,
judging from the teeth, therefore could
not have been the old man Alexander,
as at first supposed.
Portland has shipped four thousand
tons of freight during the present month.
Mr. Corbett's bill to exempt canned
and preserved fish from the internal rev.
euue tax, was reported to the Senate Jan.
11th, and passed.
By will, the late Edwin NJ. Stanton
leaves two-thirds of his property, charge
able with two-thirds of his debts, to his
wife the other third, with a similar pro-
vision with regard to his debts, to his
mother.
| 1t is reported that the Pope has yield
ed to France, and Withdrawn the project
of infallibility.
''The most polite ladies will act as
walters, dressed in pea-green jackets,
fitting hoops and high-heeled buttoned
CATERS" adyertises hotel at Red Oak,
/ Iowa
| The Tennessee Constitutional Conven-
tion have adopted the section comforting
right of suffrage upon all male citizens
of the United States over 2l years of
ace. who have been residents of Tennes-
see one year, upon each voter showing
that he has paid Ioll tax.
By order of the Government, lands
belonging to the Peabody estate, seized
by officers of the Crown, on the ground
that he was an alien, have been released.
The Pope has issued a special
elimination against the Fenians, both
in Ireland and America. He charges
their meeting in secret conclave as dan.
gerous to the peace of society, welfare ol
the church and we'll doing of its mem
| bers.
| Land in the vicinity of South Yam
hill, near McMinnville, is selling al
seventeen dollars per acre, which, consider
ing Its richness and fertility, and it:
nearness to steamboat navigation, is very
cheap.
Mr.. Silas Jonas, head sawyer in the
South Salem mill, one night last week
fell from an elevated sidewalk and brok'
both the bones of his arm, between tn,
elbow and wrist, says the Press.
The wife of Rev. 6. Hines, an early
missionary to Oregon, is lying dangerous
ly i'll at Salem, her friends having littl
hope of her recovery.
Reports from Oakland to 2Sth ult.
state that the steamer built for tn
purpose of navigating the Umpqua river
got as far as Mills ferry on her trial trir
about twenty-five miles above Scottsbure
but owing to some defect In her boiler
she was unable to pass the rapids. Sh
Immediately returned to Scottsburg fo
, repairs, when she expects to be able
reach Roseburg. Money is beingwagere
that she will not reach Roseburg thi
winter.
The Portland Oregonian says that
gentleman of that city has received
telegram from Washington, stating tha
land grant in aid of the Salem and Al
toria railr,a had been obtained frol
Government, and that negotiations ha
been entered into by Olney and Caste
with the Urion Pacific Company, whereof
that company would take hold and pt
both the Salem & Astoria and the We'
:, = Side roads through.
A new disease has broken out in Ne
York city known as the ssrelapsing fever
!. It is pronounced similar to the "famir
fever" of Europe. Though violen. in i
symptoms it is not attended with gre
0 mortality.
Virginia having been reconstructe
! Gov. Walker has issued proclamatit
le convening the Legislature next Tuesda
'e February 5th.
Is The Mormon priests have besiegt
"A Long Island, holding nightly meeting
~ and making many converts. The peop
r of Jamaica threaten to exterminate thel
~ should they attempt to bring about
- - ligious crisis in that village.
=, Mrs. Sutcliffe recently shot and woun
- ed Mrs. A. B. Mercer on account of je'
. ousy. Both were Providence (R.
: ladies, and moved in good society
.. Spain in her recent election has q
~ clared against monarchy. The candidat