The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-03-11
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Ihefc IS serious quarrel betWeeu
Count De Paris and his uncles, D. Au-
male and De Joinville.
The ladies give as q reason for marry
ing for money, that they now seldom find
anything else in a man worth having.
A female Knights of Pythias order has
been started, the highest degree being
known as Supreme Pavilion, Pythian
Sisterhood."
There has been violent gale all along
the coast of the United Kingdom. Six |
ships are ashore near South Shields, and t
several lives are known to have been lost. t
Numerous wrecks were apprehended.
An old maid at st. Lonis, died, leaviug /
SIS 5,000 and now over 500 persons have
come forward, claiming to be sdecend- |
ants" of the aforesaid maiden. There is
something wrong there somewhere.
A man in Minnesota had the audacity
to ask girl named Honechkonroski to
change that beautiful name for his pro-
fame name, which was Hell Dambrayter.
She snapped him up before he had time
| to get on his knees.
1t is said that the opinion contin ucs to
gain strength at Washington that the
basis oD which the -1huban,a question is
to be settled has been already determined
between the two governments.
The Liverpool Courier of February
l1th says that French transport, with
1850 persons on board, has foundered
off Cape La Hogue, and that all on board
were lost.
a farmer on the Bolsas Rancho, in the
Stearns grant, near Los Angeles, is said
to have raised the past season 700 bush
els of corn on five acres Of land, or at the,
rate of 140 bushels to the acre.
In the Northern District of California
n. f.. Whitsides of Yuba, Barclay Henly
aud George Pearce, of Sonoma, and }.
b. Lamar, of Meudocino, are spoken OF
on the Democratic side as aspirants for
Congress.
4 gale ut wind ut Cleveland (O) Feb
ruary 24th, blew in the entire front gable
of brick school house, while the school
was in session. Fortunately 10 one
was killed.
The most dismal invention is stone
colnpany's device of neat stone collins /;
but it is comforting to read 'sThey are
handsome article, and just what has
been needed in the way Of an outside
coffin"
\ letter from London dcscribn. ore
Of Spurgeons evening prayer meetings
says that '.The evening being wet, there
were only fifteen hundred persons pres
ent."
DIR. Seudder has preached for seven
years in San Francisco at $4,000 per
, annun, beside delivering lectures, etc,
: aud retires to Brooklyn (N. " with
, shattered health and an empty purse.
The British Cabinet is vexed because
the Prussian Government refused TO make
official acknowledgement Of the last letter
by Granville urging peace TWAS treated
with silent contempt.
The Poughkeepsie Grand Jury. i'll
view OF the recent disaster at New Ham
. burg \. Y J, urges the enactment OF
a some such law as the one now in force in
Connecticut, requiring trains to come to
a full stop before passing any bridge
: The trial of Laura d. Fair for TIE
murder Of \. =. Crittcnden, an eminent
lawyer Of San Francisco, lust November
is set for March 9th in the Fifteenth
District Court. She has been arraigne1
0 and put in plea of not guilty.
\ family Of giants has been discovered
y,
: The father is eight feet six inches tall
end a daughter only twelve years old is
t nearly seven feet in her stockings, and
! large in proportion.
A Florida man lately offered to igh
: an alligator with a butcher>knife for S ios
: a side. AS the challenge has been opei
: a mouth, and 40 alligator has come dowr
with his money or an acceptance OF the
& challenge, the man claims to be cham por
G alligatorist.
Y Sylvester Smith was lately welded t.
0 Lydia y. Smith, by the Rev. B. a
Y Smith, at Jacob Smths in Smithvillc
S Smith County, Iowa. Twenty five per
v sons were present, all Smiths but one
g and he was a widower who had married
a Smith, and was looking out for another
s Inside term of seven months the ad
y ministration of the Aims House and Hos
J pital at San Francisco, has exhausted tn
o entire fund of $4,000 provided fo
o their running expenses, and the paymen
It of the last months salaries has overrul
r that amount.
: The Yreka journal tells us the railroa,
2 question is kicking up stiff breeze in tn
: Democratic ranks in that State, but tha
= the ehanees are that this party of unwa
vering principles viii ignore the railroa,
. question altogether and substitute tn
! Chinaman again, in order to harmonic
;, the discordent elements.
n The impending coal famine in Ne,
), York is still the uppermost topic of con
n versation. The operators continue t,
!. throw all the blame on the workmen, aud
IS on the other hand, the workmen CLAIM
e that the scarcity of coal is merely the re
!. 1 suit of an attempt to starve them int
is abject submission, and render their con
IS dition worse than that of slaves.
:, A tornado passed over Jefferson Cit,
1t (N1o), February 23d, lasting thirty min