The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-11-01
albaaI 9eeister,
EASTERN NEWS.

Wy AtN0ANNt0A ~ mas NtNp QtOANti OAb
in Boston, and has become a public
calamity in Buffalo. In the latter
place omnibus companies have suspen-
ded business, and commercial men are
alarmed.
Miss Nellie Grant and ex-Secretary
Borie and family arrived in New York
city ON the Scotia, Oct. p. President
Grant and a number Of friends well
coined them.
Attorney General Williams has gone
to Virginia to participate in the cam
paign.
H.. d. j. Pratt. Chief of the First
Diplomatic Bureau of the State De
partment, has resigned
The horse disease is raging in New
York city. Up to the 23d inst. 1000
horses had it.
Smallpox Is represented as raging
tearfnlly in st. Louis. In the third
week OF October the number Of eases
is reported to have been 200.
There was no improvement in Mrs.
Greeley's health on the 23d ult.
The horse epidemic was causing in-
tense alarm IN New York on the 23d
ult. About $50 cars and stages had
been taken of. Four hundred horses
were affected by the disease in Syrl-
euse. Seventy cases had occurred at
Springfield; in Boston it was worse
than ever. Had appeared at New
burg. N. Y. No horses were in the
streets of Rochester. hand carts being
substituted. The epidemic was begin
ming to spread in Chicago.
The clerks In the War Department
at Washington have been grantedl leave
to 90 home and vote.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
issued the following instructions to
collectors at Rochester. Burlington,
Cape Vincent and Port Huron: "You
are directed, so long as the existing
horse disease prevails in Canada, to
allow no horses to be brought into
your port or district, from that eoun-
try. unless perfectly satisfied that they
are free from contagious disease
A dispatchto Washington from Min
isterBancroff states that on the question
Of San Juan claim, Emperor William
has decreed that the claim Of the United
States IS most in accordance with in-
terpretation Of the treaty Of June 10th,
1876.
Hon. John A Griswold was lying at
the point Of death at Troy, N. u, on
the oath nit.
AT DE Kalb, ILL.,. recently, balloon
broke from its moorings and a hanging
rope caught the leg of John McMann,
spectator, and carried him np dis
tance of 100 feet, when he managed
to climb into the ear. At a height of
about 400 feet he jumped ont and
struck the ground dead.
AT Aurora. Ill.,. on the 25tl ult., NJ.
B. Whittingby, editor OF the HeFad.
was seized by apoplexy while walking
along a mill race. and fell Oh his face
into the water. which was only foot
deep. and was drowned.
The death of Mrs. Greeley was
momentarily expected on the oath ult.
Tweed says he intends to fight Ills
case through to a conclusion.
The question Of enforcing the Sun
day Liquor law il absorbing much at
tention in Chicago. Temperance pco-
pie have announced determination
to put strict temperance ticket IN the
field for members OF the Legislature.
The attention Of fhe Secretary Of
State. has been called to the abuse Der-
sisted III on the part Of petty tfermni
States in transporting pardoned nur-
,leIprs and highway robbers to Till
country. The matter should he ut.
tended to.
Oil the 18th hit, ii was estimate
that from so. 900 to 10000 horses wes
affected in New York and vicinity with
the horse malady. The disease had
in no way abated in other Easter
cities.
At Mayor Halls trial in New Yorl
on the 18th uit.. GaFvey produced quite
a senAtion by testifying that Hall ha(
told him that he must do what Tweet
and bis associates told him. Thi
testimony excited Hall.
Baron and Baroness Rnthschild have
sent $4,000 to the poorest members o
the Jewish community who suffered
by the recent fire ontiie Bospllorrls "
kouscouAdjNnk.
Lord Moss's country sent at Lime
rick. Ireland. was burned on the 2Stl
tIlt.
The country reform bill III the Pris
sian Diet. has causeda conflict hetweei
the upper and lower House. The bill
was adopted BY the Chamber Of DEM
ties at the last session. and provide
for local self government lii the rur,
districts. The House Of Lords nov
oppose it. The majority Of the Depu
ties threaten to resign II the Lcrl
fail to pass It. The Emperor has de
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