The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-11-04
EASTERN NEWS.

\ u.nbPrS nDl>ts>, Ni'p'
de ,troyed. 1t is feared that the fire
viii sn,.ra,I to Batavia. Farmers are
t,ceino with their stock and furniture.
The lire east of Oberlla is reported SUD
dued. but another has broken out I'VE
miles north of that place. Loss since
last Su,plav, at Albinon Soo, GOO. Zen
horses. two flour mills and ,oUU CORDS
of wood were burned.
4 Washington special says lilforiifl-
ton is received of large 1lfe3 ~ 'ns
yood. rafl:atii.g in all directions from
the Cumberland mountains which are
enyeloped iii smoke. Other hi9'sii'aiil
ranges report fires which are doliiS
much damage. The bittlnllnous Heio'
are threatened.
Another special says that the 1ire III
the woods south of Aibinon, Wilich
stretched five miles. was entirely SUB
dued bv Il rain. Five houses, seven
barns. two Hour mills and 300 tons
of l,ay have been Ll.rncd since SUN
day.
The fire near I.akeport is coafined
to Il tamai1,cl> swamp. TWO children
were burned in it.
The real estate operations OF iWeea,
Connolly, Sweeney and Hall are pup
Iished. Official records show mat
Connolly when sued III Sjj for debt,
swore that he owned nothing. Since
then he has bought real tate t. the
amount OF 81, 300, 600. Tweed, a bank
rupt in 1865, has bought and sod real
estate since SIS to the amount Of 81
Al, 900. and has engaged III otter
transactions to the amount OF 5000
900. Sweeilcy's purchases in three
years amount to 81 40, 900, and Hail.
to 81, 100. 900.
Charles O'Coaor of New York says
lie caa recover s3, 800, 600 from Tweed
in civil suits.
Tie Secretary of War has dismissed
| from the Military Academy. tor Fio-
| lence 10 other cadets, c;ldet' .jno. "
| Wilson. Dewitt Clinton, L. Santiago,
Il. IIubbcll and J. l.. Steel. and for the
same cause !las ordered cadets Miller
and Hammond to lie deprived Of the
next fiirlouSh and confilied TO the linn
| its of the plain until the next year.
! At Il colorcd convention at Co!um-
bia, $. c., on Monday, 23L Of October,
a letter was read from Senator sum
ner. urging colored people to insist
upon rights ,leilied,-e1uality in pub
lie eonveyances, hotels and schools.
Gen. Thomas w. Bennett. of IN
diana, is appointed Governor of Idaho
vice Bowen resigned.
The latest remarkable movement i
! the emigration from Iceland to Wis
consin OF twenty-five f:tiniiics, whc
have taken mp their abodeS on Wash
ington Island, aL the mouth OF Greer
Bay. These are but the pioneers o.
the new movement. twenty-five
thousand of the inhabitants OF tho
frigil island are still to come, and they
will. it is said. spread them selves along
the line Of The North Pacific Railroa,
and through the country bordering the
Red River OF the North. The popu
lation of Iceland was oi,ce 100. .O0f
but it is now probably not more thai
10000.
Col. Whitney, Chief of the Unitet
States Detective forces, Oh the itll o
October, effected the most importan
arrest of colnterfeiters ever made il
this country. These notorious coun
terfeiters, one OF whom is Ballard, ar
the only men in this country who po
sess the stock to manufacture Govern
ment fibre paper material. The cap
turc includes Il hundred thousand dol
lar transfer press, believed to be tn
only one outside of the Treasury DE
partmeht. fill sets, of steel and coppe
plates for ST 900. $40, $l0and 81 bills
also full sets of plates of fra ctional ctil
rency stamp: 70. tie. treasury "a, fl,
simiie of types for raising notes, etc.
General Robert Anderson, the her
of Fort Sumpter, died at Nice, France
on the 18th of October. lie will
Inferred in this country.
From Washington, October 27tl
we learn that the President has al
pointed William NJ. Evarts and Nj
Curtis as counsel before the tribunal {
arbitration ut Geneva, i'll addition
: Caleb Cushing. Meredith declined til
appointment rendered; Evarts a,
cepted. Curtis is now OH his way HON
from Europe.
At Jacksonville, Fla, William {
Scott was executed OH the 9th of Ia
month, for the murder Of Rosa Carl,
ton and two children i'm February las
At indianapolis, Ind, on the san
day, Jerome Brooks, the murderer
t Staats, at Logansport, last April, ws
: hanged. lie manifested to the Il,
the same stolid Indifference that he Ii;
< maintained since his arrest. and place
the rope around his neck himself.
There is lut one leading Journal
New York that shows sympathy f;
: Tweed, and that is the .Stm.
: A dispatch from New York date
Oct. 27th, has the following:
+. \. Woodward, has been sued f
: money alleged to be due the city, ha
t ing absconded. Judge Barnard tod
granted application to attach his pro
, erty.
. Reform Democrats. at the instan
: of Chas. O'ConOr, to-day nominate
q uOratio Scymnl.I as candidate for II