The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-05-20
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place, stood before the mirror aud cut
her thl oat from DR. to ear. Her mother,
who was living With her, heard her fall,
aud rushed into Vie room and found her
quite dead.
Telegraphic messages have been sent
direct from London to Bombay, dis
tance of q 900 miles, without Interrupt
ton
| The steamer City of Limerick, which
left Liverpool, April I'D, is at Queens
town, Ireland, with thousand passen
gers. She must repair before proceeding
to New York.
The State Treasurer of Illinois has
filedin the Office of the Clerk of the
Funding Commissioners S3,O50,0 of
cancelled State bonds, being the amount
of State debt recently paid.
Major Powell, the Colorado explorer,
has left On his second journey. He goes
under the auspices of the Smithsonian
Institution, there being appropriation
of S25 900 for the expedition.
Robert Meiton, delinquent tax col
lector, with his wife and daughter, were
shot in Chesterfield county, South Caro-
lima, on Sunday night, April 22d by the
ku-kluxefs. The wife was instantly
killed, Melton himself fatally wounded.
A proposed tax of half penny Per
box on matches creates great excitement
IN England. Great crowds of noisy and
turbulent people, opponents of the meas
ure, assembled near the Parliament
building, in London, on the afternoon Of
April 9th, but they we're dispersed by
the police.
One Haggerty, a carpenter, had his
arm taken off in Sierra coun y, Califor-
MIA. mill last week.
DR.. q. Goodrich, Downieyille, Cali
foruia, dentist, broke his leg at the skat
| ing rink week before last.
Italy will refuse to submit the Roman
question to conference
The Chinese demand that the Embas-
sadors' female schools be abolished.
Doctrines opposed to Coniucius are for.
| bddcn Missionaries are considered
Chinese subjects, and a prohibition to
women attending religious services is
established
While bunting in Santa Cruz, week
before last, Matthews received pistol
ball in The leg
VIna is the name of the station on the
Californi. and Oregon Railroad, at Deer
Greek
= A rather elderly gentleman adopted
very original way oi proposing once ia
church lie passed to the young lady,
the object OF his passion, His open prayer
book, having marked the words 10 the
marriage service. W lit thou take this
man TO be thy welded husband 2" In
stantlv she opened at another place, The
ancient canons, aud handed~back the
book with this very apropos sentence
strongly underlined: NO woman may
marry her grandfather
Utah furnishes the latest smart wo
man, Who at the age of 81, gtcaped over
20 bushels Of wheat and raised thirty
bushels OF potatoes, aud dug and carried
them into the cellar.
Two Freuchmen were badly bitten by
rats one night, at Biddeford, Me. One
bad his heel SO guawed that he could not
walk on it next day, and the other was
bitten through the nose aud neck.
DIR. Bush says the reason why Ger
mans die so seldom of Consumption is
the fact of their singing from earliest
childhood
q. Ill. Pendleton says he is not can
didate for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Ohio.
The Jacksonville Times of last week
has this: From u resident of Butte creek,
who came for physician. we learned
that the horse Of Mr.. Moore, an old sol>
dier, stumbled and fell upon him, break
ing several bones and severely brnising
him. We have not since heard from, the
injured man. his recovery at that time
was douttf
It will never do, says Henry Ward
Rppchpr IN rraach ora.,r, aud nracffcn
skim milk. To which the New York
Leader wickedly replies: No, Henry
better to preach skim milk, an,i practice
what your royI income permits creme de
Ia creme.
Bacon said: an youth. women are
our idols; at ripe age, our companions;
In old age, our nurses, aud in all ages,
our friends 2
The Omaha Tribune calls loudly upon 1
the thirty-fivc thousand old maids in
New England to consult Horace Greeley.
and then go V est to buy farms.
A Providence paper speaks of the la
dies appearing on the streets like AMI
mated fragments OF shattered rainbows."
Two young Atlantans ran a foot race
on Sunday for the honor of escorting a
belle 70 church. The winner found she |
had just gone with another fellow.
Cultivate flowers and vines in your
houses; they are the prettiest, cheapest,
most .humanizing, ornaments in the
world.
Cincinnati has just bottled new brand |
of baby that weighed only a POUND aud |
half al birth
phe grand jury for the last term which
convenedat Laramie was composed of nine
men aud six wouen.
Love is an internal transport; SO is a
canal boat
Five wives of an Indian in Kansas have
sued for divorce
Sigel has a poor opinion of Cabral, and
remarks :ss. could kick dat nigger nit
one hand
Forty>seven women are editorially con-
nected with the New York press.
ladies' life insurance company is be-
ing formed in London. One provision is |