The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-06-07
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Crops in Illinois and Iowa are
reported backward. The wheat
crop is lighter than usual.
The Irish Democratic Union, Of
New York, endorses Greeley.
The President has appointed
George Nourse, Register, and Geo.
Counor, Receiver of the Land Of
flee at Turkville, Oregon.
The public debt statement shows
a decrease during tile month of $4,-
900, 900. Coin balance in che treas
ury, $91, ,10S,332; currency balance,
S11,207,Sl3.
James Gordon Bennett died at
New. York Oh the lst.
The largest aque'luct inthe world
is the Croton aqueduct of New
York. 1t cost $l2, 10000
A destructive fire which ragged
over Hawks Mountain, New York,
the other day, came within six feet
of the powder house Of the Midland
Tunnel contractors, where 700 bar
rels of blasting powder were stored.
On the oath of November, 1871,
L. \. Fogg, Of Pulaski, Tenn, put
il the center OF a bale of cotton
note, offering $50 to the finder on
forwarlng it. On the 9Th day of
May he received the. note from, and
forwarded the $50 to Albert Cham
bcrS,. a workman at tile Victoria
Mills, Newton Moore, Chester
county, England.
Alexander II. Stephens is writing
columns to disprove the Louisville
Courier-Jomuays assertion that
his utterances are "nothing but ab-
surd gabblc."
The Rhode Island Legislature
voted to John O'Neil 5000 as some
compensation for eight years i'm
prisorment for crime which it
was lately proved lie rever commit
ted.
James McGrew, of Warsaw, In
diana, drank nil.e glasses of whisky
to get up courage to have some
teeth extracted, and expired soon
after from the effects.
The Columbus (Ohio) State !
Jouuoi holds the opinion that Mr..
Greeley has more capacity for get
ting himself into a minority than
any other man in this country.
Southerners are circulating a .fac
similc of the bail bond of jeff
Davis" late President of tile Con
Tolerate States" with the sigma
lures including Horace Grcelcy's.
An Illinois farmer makes sugar
fromthe sap of the box elder.
Daniel Webster Appleton, rel |
atiye of Daniel Webster, was re-
Gently burned to death IN q cell of
the Dorchester Glass; Police sta
ton. lie had been confined for
drunkenness, and fire occurred in
the Jail by accident.
The Fiji dwarf attached to Bar
NUNS travelling museum died i'll
York, Pa, Oh the 18th, and his
three companions were biting and
gnawing at the heshy part Of the
body when discovered by the at
temdantS.
In Lawrence, Mass, the other
day, a Newfoundland dog rescued
two boys who were on the point Of
drowning.
At Davenport, Iowa, boy was
standing on the bank of the river
watching some workmen digging.
1t had hardly commenced raining,
though a heavy thunderstorm was
approaching. The lightning struck
him on the temple, leaving two
dark spots on his forehead, passing
lown.his neck, tearing the clothing
from Ms breast and right leg and ,
his boot nearly from his foot. 7'he :
body was badly scorchcd all the !,
way down. The stroke threw the
ad at least four feet into the air. {
Judge Field of the Supreme
court tells his Democratic friends |
hat while he would have supported 4
Davis or Chase, as between Greeley |
nd Grant, he shall vote for Grant. |
This is the the kind of cajo'ery
lsed by the New York SIN to III t