The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-01-29
NEWS ITEMS.


during the night.
Mr.. Stanton leaves family consisting of his |
widow, a son edwin I.) of about twenty-five
years, praeticing lawyer of Washington city, |
and who was his fathers private secretary in the
War Office, and three younger children, aged H.
9 and 5, named Ella, Lewis and Bessie. He will
be buried in Oak Hill Cemetery at Georgetown.
| A young man in Baltimore went into the cham
ber of frail girl and said 80 am going to shoot
you.'' The girl calmed his ire, coaxed him to
lay down the pistol, then seized it herself and
shot him dangerously in the head. She is in Jail
on charge of cleverness.
Accounts from Paris say that the Prince Impe-
rial dances every evening with the pretty Ameri-
can girls who are among the guests invited espec-
| tally to please tho heir to the throne. These
American girls are Miss Payne, Miss Parsons and
| Miss Jerome.
1t is announced that Captain Raymond, of the
United States Engineer Corps, declares in his re-
port that the Yukon river, in Alaska, is the third
largest in the world-the Amazon and Mississippi
alone taking precedence. This river runs from
south to north, and empties into the Icy Ocean.
1t rises in the mountains opposite Sitka and runs
through the enti,e Territory of Alaska.
The Albany Democrat having completed its
paper in the State. They must be a short lived
--.Statesnan.
Fort steilacoom was sold at auction recently
by the Government, and purchased for the use of
Washington Territory. 1t is to be converted into
an Insane Asylum. 1t brought $3.50.
The crops in Douglas county in very
healthy condition, and farmers correspond
ingly happy.
10 ivad nia 0f
meat from Dayton. which supposed to con-
tain trichina spralis. 1t was handed to DR..
Watkins for examination. The Doctors report
will be found in another place.
M. P. Bull has dissolved his connection pub
7 Usher of the Portland Commercial. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. James O'Meara will have control
of the editorial columns. Under his control it
proposes to be thoroughly independent paper.
On last Thursday evening the great debate
, to begin between Messrs. Arnoup and Todd, at
Portland. 1t to continue for eight successive
8 evenings. This discussion will doubtless excite
much interest.
The Gazette says that the human remains
: found at Glad Tidings recently supposed to
: be these of old man named Alexander, who
disappeared from that neghborhood three years
ago. Alexander was the owner of band of
cattle, about which he and his neighbors had a
quarrel, in regard to their running upon the open
! range. few days after the quarrel Alexander
e disappeared, and bas been heard from
j. since. Subsequently his cattle were driven
away by unknown parties 1t is believed
that he was murdered and his body thrown into
the thicket where the skeleton found. A
a thorough investigation will be instituted
Winter having set in, active mining operations
. have been discontinued in Kootenai. Rich dig
o gings have been struck Perry creek, prospect
e ing as high as 81 to the pan.
= Cinnabar, specimens of which assayed ffty-ivt
# per cent, has been found twenty-five miles from
d Victoria.
, Overland mails via Columbia river are delayed
o by ice in that stream.
o The leading Democratic paper in Ohio, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, remarks that it is eviden
the Democracy do not need numbers much II
l., the House of Representatives they do brains
Two daily evening papers of Boston, tn,
20 Trareler and Transcript, have employed femal
n compositors since 1864. They receive men,
l. wages, work full hours, and average about Slt
per week.
joint resolution granting pension to tb
p widow of President Lincoln offered in the
4 Senate by Mr.. Wilson, and referred to the Com
mittee Finance.
Prince arthur, OF England, IS being feted q
ID Washington.
Wheeler Wilson's extensive sewing machin
factory was destroyed by fire on tho 23d. Los
ol heavy.
! At a meeting of those interested in the North
"a ern Pacific Railroad. in New York the 22d,
20 resolved to begin work and push it vigor
~ ously in the coming Spring.
On the 25th old hotel, occupied as a dwell
ling, in the lower part of the city of Corvallis
Id caught fire and was partly consumed The in
m mates escaped.
, The Louisiana Legislature has instructed it
'y representatives to their influence against tn
proposed reduction of duty sugar by Cor
gress.
,g A Cuban victory over General Peeb is chroni
ut cled. Peeb lost 300 men.
ct On the 23d four business houses were destroye
Id by fire in st. Joseph, No. Mr.. VIM. Bowie.
8. brother-in-law OF ex-Congressman Loan, VIII
We was sleeping in one of the buildings, perished
ne the flames. While the fremen were endeav orin
to rescue the body, the wall fell in, mortally ir
ne turing three. and severely wounding four Others
,ft Geo. D. Prentice was buried on the gath, 4
a Cave Hill Cemetery, with Masonic honors.
On the 23d, Captain Goodrich, City Treasure
of Terre Haute, Indiana, formerly of the lit
tie Cavalry, shot himself through the head. Caus
tn -pecuniary trouble and intenperance.
The new French cable, connecting Brest wit
ad England, has beefsuccessfuy laid
Great excitement existed in San Francisco o
n. the 25th over the supposed fend who horribl
outraged and murdered the little girl, Mar
Ryan, on the day previous. The police had
lis the utmost exerton to keep the excited pop,
lace from tearing the prisoner to pieces.
A Baptists complaint-Dip-th theory.
er, A story has been extensively published in E,
tn rope lately to the effect that President Grant wi
soon visit the sovereigns of Europe, and that
will make the transatlantic voyage accompanit
i'm by feet of iron clads.
ool The National Inteitigeneer, at Washington
Re- again nomnates Salmon p. Chase for Presiden
bo and Robert E. Lee for Vice President in 1872.
Prim is said to have made a fortuneof s5 00f
600 out of his management of the Spanish rev
-tb luton.