The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-05-10
vARIoss ITEMS.

dclphia to raise $4,000 for the pur-
pose Of erecting a monument to the
late Major General Geo. II. Thomas.
The Bible is forbidden to he used
in public schools at Davenport,
Iowa.
Secretary Fish has got over his
resignation fits, and gone back into
his old residence at Washington.
4 stone was lately quarrled on
Lake Superior which was ITO feet
long aud 81 feet thick.
The small pox has broken out in
southwest Missouri, and the people
are alarmed.
Jim Fisk's widow las only
about two millions from his estate.
Florida has two STATE Govern.
ments in successful operation.
There are siyty-two weather sl@-
nal stations in the United states,
Portland, Key West, Galveston,
San Dicgoaud Portland, Oregon.
Milwaukee, Wis, has given ST.
100000 to railroads.
One hundred and tifty-four Of the
John smith family have graduated
at Yale College.
There isa bust of John Brown,
the martyr abolitionist, in the mu-
scum at Genoa.
The bank notes of England are
printed on paper manufactured of
the common raw palmetto Of Flor
ida.
A million dollars in gold, accord
ing to the figures at the mint,
weighs just two tons.
General Simon Bolivar Buckncr
is building a six story marble block
in Chicago. With him the cruel
war is over.
a perper-box for salt is the latest
Yal kec invention.
There are probably net more
than 500 Christian Jews in the nj
ted States.
The Iowa Division of the Illinois
Central Railroad employs in the
machine shops at Waterloo about
two hundred hands. These shops
alone, it is estimated, sustain a pop
ulation Of over six hunlred.
At the recent town meeting in
Moscow, a small town on the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
road, about forty miles west Of Da-
vcnport, Iowa, women were elected
by large majority to fill all the
town offices.
Horace Greeley closes up recent
manifesto with the following para
graph: "Such is our position and
it will not be affected by the nomi-
nation of a or i, 6 or D, at the
Cincinnati, Philalelph a, or else
where" The indianapolis Erca-
I'M JomwM says this settles the
matter 50 far as Adams, Brown, |
Chase, and Davis are concerned,
but thinks the fact that Horace /,
didn't carry his speculati0ns up to
&c" is significant, to say the least
of it.
IN Ohio man has been married |
seventy-tive years, and has had his
mothcr-in-law as a boarler during
the whole time. He says he has
never had cause to regret her com
pany, and recommended her as a
model mother-nl-law. She( is now |
one hundred and five years pld.
The Emperor William rides |
about in Berlin in very plain-look-
ing carriage, without escort or
guards. lie always appears in full |
uniform, and graciollsly touches his
helmet to- the crowd, who bow and /
applaud until he is long out OF sight.
bismarck seldom rides or drives,
nor docs Moltke, as the Americans
say.
\ curious phase Of the "duello"
has Just come to light in the French
papers. Pending the first siege of
Paris, two French officers bad a
quarrel, and a duel was decided
upon. The conditions were left to
the colonel. lie ordered both to
march right to the enemy's outpost,
killing as many Prussiaus as they
could; the survivor Of the two was
to return. Soon one of the autago-
nists was shot, and the other carried
the body back to camp.