The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-09


necessary for druggists, clerks to be
licensed by competent board of
examiners, before compountling
drugs for the sick. Good.
A most terrible famine is now
raging in Persia. Multitudes are
dying of starvation. Wheat is
selling for eight dollars per b,lshel,
equivalent in our currel:cy to forty
dollars. In the cities and districts
of lrak, part of koordistan and
other parts of Persia, the suffering
is most fearful, the dead and dying
meeting the eye constantly upon the
streets.
The citazens of the Dalles are
making efforts to raise money to
buy steam fire engine.
In consequence of one-third of
the country of Hungary being under
water, of unusual storms this season,
and tie great severity exercised by
tho Government I'm the collection of
taxes in arrears, fearful misery pre-
walls. Agriculture, trade and indus
try in general are much injured, and
famine is impending.
The yellow fever is reported to be
| dying out down South.
| The Republican Torchlight process
| ion in San Francisco on the evening of
Sept. 4, was one of the most brilliant
displays of torches, tr7inSparencieS ana
| fireworks ever seen in that city.
/ If il a,nxv orally ponppflptI that
Oregon enjoys a greater degree of
! prosperity and success in all depart
ments of business. than she has ever
| experienced before.
| If the United States and Great Bri-
| tain adhere strictly to the terms of the
treaty ut Washington. there can be no
more great wars, with their attendant
waste and general decentralization.
| Kansas brags of a peach this year.
measuring eleven inches and weighing
| ten and a half ounces
Seeds of the castor oil plant have
been found in Egyptian sarcophagi.
| The plant is a native of India.
There are 456. .S02 members of the
Masonic Order in the United States.
There was a terrible explosion in a
coal mine, near Wigan. Lancashire,
England. September 6. in which fifty
| persons We're cut off from the outer
world. A party sent down to aScer-
! tain their condition were still down ut
! the last accounts.
/ The London Republicans have is
sued the following as the programme
| for the application of federation priil-
| ciples: Abolition of titles and privi-
| leges. suppression of monopolies, abo-
! lition of the army. compulsory educa-
J ton. State to provide work for able
| bodied men and suStenanee for those
unable to work. naturalization of land.
popular legislation, and diffusion of
republicaniSm.
that out of 81. 800. OOO people in Great
| Britain, only $4,000 are owners of the
| soil.
| Mrs. Stanton pockets 500 from her
| lecturing tour in California.
! A New York paper shows that from
| 1869 to 1871 the national Government
| decreased the debt $40 81 per capita
while during the same period the New
| York city government increased the
debt S53 90 per head.
The expenses of the government for
the last fiscal year, ending June 30th,
have just been summed up, AID amount
to $G9I .0O0, 900.
The new Methodist Church at Ka-
1 Gtittst W III Oc UetiStttSte Ut stlftisft. Istlh
18th.
The town of Gervais, on the o. & c.
Railroad. was named by Ben Hollatiay
after Joseph Gervais, Canadian
E'reilchnan. and one of the earliest
pioneer settlers of French Prairie.
The Oregonian says that in BoiSs
valley cattle are becoming blind. Ont
farmer. the other day, found clever
animals in this condition. The disease
it is said. exists also in Grande ROndt
valley in this State. and it is spreading
The largest melons of the season
come from Hood river. The one WI
measured was twenty-five inches Ion:
and twenty-siX in diameter.
DIR. Kirk. of Zanzibar, writes tina
DIR. Livingstone is still i'm the country
and was at Tankey.
A section of the new school law o
Texas provides that if any of tll
scholastic population between th
ages of six and eighteen years do no
attend the public schools for at leas
four months during each year-whel
in good health-the parents or g,larii
ans OF the Offenders shall be guilty g
misdemeanor, and shall be flied in
: sum not to exceed $25 and costs TO
each offense.
1t is feared that the potato crop
ruined, in Ireland, from the blight.
Under the provisions of the Obi
Sunday law, a debtor is exempted froI
arrest on that day.
, Since the aboliSllment of serfdom /
Russia, in 1863. her wealth and powe
have increased in marvellous degree
The population of Japan, as reporte
by the census of February last, is 81
7s5, ,95I souls, living in 1908, 600 ho,r