The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-08-06
NEWS ITEMS.

From Havana we learn that the yellow |
fever aud cholera are doing the Spanish |
army more harm than the Cubans.
Two colored gentlemen are supposed
elected to seats in the forty-second Con-
gress-Jas Harris, of North Carolina, and
r. B. Elliot, of South Carolina.
Trouble is expected at the coming
election in North Carolina.
! A terrible pestilence is reported as
sweeping through all the towns on the
Illinois river, above and below Canton
landing, caused by the stencil from decay
ing fish, thousands of which line either
bank Of the river for miles above and be-
low Canton. People living in the bottom
have been compelled to move to the
bluffs
On the Ist inst, in Salem, Dan. Wal
dos residence was destroyed by fire
Loss about 81 800 While the house
was burning, Waldos daughter died of
consumption.
From Salem telegram we learn that
son OWN Sappington fell from bug
.gy, few days since, striking on the
small of the back, receiving injuries
which caused his death.
Hon. VIM H. Seward writes that he
will visit San Francisco the last Of the
present month, to sail thence for Asia on
the 1st of September. He will spend
the winter in Asia.
At the election for county officers in
Helena, Montana Territory. August lst,
Miss Annie Corella procured ballot and
proceeded to cast her vote. 4 Democrat
challenged her vote, on the ground that
she was not of age; but she cast her vote,
amid the plaudits Of the spectators.
The California d Oregon Railroad is
being rapidly constructed.
The election in Utah for Delegate to
: Congress passed off quietly, the Mormon
. women generally voting. Mormon Dele
gate probably elected.
John f. Tracy, of Chicago, railroad
president, reports an income of $500, 900,
on which he has paid $4,000 taxes.
A newly discovered Chinese poem,
III Sac, written 800 years before Christ,
IS said to prove that the existence OF
America was known to the Chinese at
that time.
During an affray in his saloon at ST
: Louis, late on Monday night, Mike
, McCool was accidentally shotin the left
/ arm, fracturing the bone and producing a
; serious would
S In quarter Of San Francisco, within
radius of 200 feet, there are, either
, finished or in process of erection, three
: Jewish Synagogues, twelve Christian
churches, and Chinese J loss house.
Returns of the vote on the new Con
stitution, in Illinois, from all but eighi
e counties, have been received. The ma
jority tor minority representation will be
i about twenty thousand.
. The scene Of Lydia Thompson's new
!, play, written by Alexander Dumas, is
laid partly in South America, and part
ly in Paris The Chicago scene is not
pat in.
There is MAN Flute" in Ire
land, who produces all the effects of i,
flute without recourse to any instrument
| Whatever
A young daInsel of sixteen, who hae
worn short dresses all her life, positively
! told her mamma she would wear then
no longer.
The family of the late Colonel Steptoe
. of the United States army, are reported
: to be in much distress at Lynchburg, Va
: A clergyman in a Connecticut towr
declined an increase of his salary tc
: $500, because the collection of S40O wa
J all he could stand.
! A fashion article in a Wisconsin pape
: describes the suit of an Indian boy fv,
years old It consisted of garter tiee
around the leg.
e Senator McCreery peremptorily re-
i fuses to be a candidate for Governor IL
! Kentucky.
4 The population of Oberlien, Ohio, un
Il der the new census, is little less thai
n 5000
A. FL. Stevens, the late Vice Presiden
:, of the Confedercy, now weighs but Y
= = pounds.
q A young Partisan couple whose love
> had been forbid, resolved together t
leave the world. They retired TO bed il
4 close room with two fires of charcoa
+ burning on the floor. After shoI
), sleep Chloe awoke ana smashed two pane
of glass to let IN the air to relieve he
?, headache. This awoke her lover, VIII
r up braided her with being afraid to die
e stabbed her with clasp knite-an,
: bolted Thus the course of true low
IS never did run smooth.
, The census just taken in Hungar
shows population of Is ,439, ,238.