The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-08-13
VARIOUS ITEMS.

latlon OF over oUu sous.
A leading Democratic journal suggests
the name of Hendricks, of Indiana, and
John Quincy Adars, of Massachusetts,,
as a strong Democratic Presidential
team
a little son Of Jas. Harris, at Kings
valley, aged two years, one day last week
was thrown backward into a vessel of hot
water, and SO badly scalded that he died
less than two days thereafter, Gays the
Corvallis Mercury.
a two-story brick is to be built in
Walla Walla for hotel purposes. a wool
en- mill is to be erected in the valley |
soon
a hundred lodges of Blackfeet Indians
have recently died with the smallpox,
says the Walla Walla Union.
Montana is The stock raising country of
the world. a Montana paper says that
yearling brought forth twins this Spring,
and calf in the same herd, only eleven
months old, last May gave birth to fine
large calf!
The viva voce system of this State is
being discussed, pro and con, by various
Democratic journals. Fix the matter up
to suit yourselves, gentlemen.
The Indian troubles in Wyoming sur
pass, in atrocity aud horror, anything in
her previous history. The Utes attacked
the miners of North Park, and massa-
cred almost every man. Public meet
ings are being held, and everybody is
arming. Send few Quakers into the
Territory
Since Grants Inauguration the rcvo-
nue. receipts have increased $50 ,000, 900,
and the customs 100000; the Gov
ernment expenses have been iessened
$50, 900, 900, and the public debt reduced
, STAG, ,0o0, 900, while taxation has been
reduced $50, 900, 900. Surely the Re-
publican administration has been rather
, successful.
} According to the estimates of the Ag-
ricultural Department, the present wheat
crop of the United States will fall short
of the crop of 1869 some 49,000,000
bushels, while the corn crop is largely
above an average. The cotton crop, with
''long season" will fall little short OF
| 1000, 900 bales. With large crops and
!, high prices our farmers are not likely to
wear lcnG faces this season
The Eugene Journal says, Mr. E P.
Henderson, the Deputy Marshal, in TAX
/ ing the census of this county. found an
! interesting family the other day of which
the husband was 20, the wife Is, and the
oldest child sir-the difference between
mother aud child being only about twelve
, years. He found another family which
(, consisted Of seventeen members, equal tc
a Brigham's establishment.
The same paper says that Mosher and
Chadwick are at loggerheads over the
I coming Senator, the first wants his father
$ in-law, 10. Lane, of course, and Chad
wick wants to be Governor himself, ane
{ so insists that Grover must 60 to ths
United States Senate.
The French Mitroleur IS light 81
barreled gun, arranged that its barrel
= may be discharged simultaneously o
consecutively. Tho cartridges are con
e tanned il box; steel plate with cor
: responding holes, is placed on the box
which is then reversed, aud the cart
0 ridges fall point foremost in their re
o spective holes, being prevented from
e falling through BY the rims at their ba
ses. The foaded plate is then introduced
}, into the hreech-slot, and when the breecl
i is closed by lever, a number of stee
i pins, pressed by spiral springs, are onl.
i prevented from striking the percussion
+ arrangement in the cartridges by plat
in front of them. When this case
E moved slowly by a handle, the cartridge
!. are fred one by one If the plate b
J. Withdrawn rapidly they follow each othe
r so quickly that their discharge is all bu
simultaneous The invention seems yer
we'll adapted for use ip forts or othe
s permanent places of defense or ofense
but its carriage and management in tn
IS field would present many and insuperabl
2 obstacles to its general use
II s'Italy" said a celebated Austria
= - statesman, interrogatively, in the haugh
'e = weening pride, gone by" "Italy is but
| y geographical expression !" The fair pt
! ninsula was then subdivided into three {
;, four Kingdoms and half dozen petit
= duchies, with province or two belongin
= to outside Powers. To-day she is al
~ ~ united from the Alps to the end of th
= boot in one government, excepting th
> States which will recognize the Sovel
: eign Pontif as their solo supreme ten
poral ruler Her population now, eve
with that exception remembered, is abou
a 27 100000 souls, and her superficial are
!. more than I00, 900 square miles. He
}, army, which in 1848 amounted in Sal
s dinis, the only section Of her the
). subdiyided territory that seemed nationa
n to only $4,000 men, now consists 9
. AIS, 900 men in all, for field operation.
h Of which the number ready for immcdiat