The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-09-27

Douglas county. on Friday Of last
week, it upset, seriously injuring the
driver and one passenger, and totally
wrecking the coach.
Four hundred and fifty bushels Of
good, white wheat, from nine acres,
was the yield III Dry Gulch four miles
from Fifteen Mile Creek.
A Montana miner named Nelson
Briley lately tried to commit suicide
by beating himself over the head with
a boulder.
From the Ofagoaiaa we learn that a
boy named Thomas Connolly while
fooing with pistol, accidentally dis
charged its contents into his thigh,
making a very severe wound.
Il. NJ. Olsen, was recently discover
ell dead IN one Of lie old huts at Piute
Mountain. He was found sitting mp
i'll bed leaning against the wall Of the
hut.
Smallpox i still prevailing in diff
ferelt parts Of Utah.
Salt Lake is full Of strangers from
all parts OF The country.
Forty-seven acres of land. valued ut
$4,000, have been donated to tile Uni
versity OF California, by Hon. Edward
Tompkins, Of Alameda, to endow Il
pretessorship OF Oriental Languages,
to be known as the Agassiz Professor
ship. II is tor culture in the Chinese
and japanese especially.
An old settler IN Yamhill county
has a horse which has reached his tliir-
ty-secord year.
A Directory at the present Oregon
Legislature shows that every member
of the Seilate l., either Il married man
or Il widower. There are only seven
single men i'll both Houses. There
are twelve lawyersamong the number.
Thirty-oue Of the members are far
nlers. Ole capitalist appears on the
list, and he is from Marion county.
Two medical men are required t. odish
up the phr-ic. one vpccualor i on
Land ~, Il staid-of for the lawyers.
Several stock-raiScrS and a couple Of
fishermen are added to the list. one
is down As an s. ). Agent. Au edit
or's name is down among the officers
elect. Senator Cornelius, who has
been resident Of Oregon y years, is
the Oldest settler. Onstein. of the
House, who has lived in Oregon but
two years, is the most recent conner.
Thirty-three Of the members have liv-
ed in Oregon 20 years.
Wheat sells for fifty-five cents per
bushel at Corvallis.
Oats sell in Olympia at seventy-fve
cents a bushel.
Puget Sound region kills the fever
and ague in forty-eight hours.
Low tides at Puget Sound are ren-
dering the clam diggers happy.
An old grudge caused Sandy, the
Postmaster Of Quartz Creek, W. A., to
shoot twice and kill Louis Patterson,
ferryman at that point.
There was large demand for hay
in Portland last week. and the supply
inadequate.
The price of wheat at Engene City
Is fifty cents buShel.
A man named Andrew st. Martin
stabbed an Indian in the pit Of the
stomach, at Olympia, recently. The
wound is dangerous, and Martin is un-
der arrest.
\ Chiuaman was assaSSiuated IN
Idaho City not long since. by a shot
through window. 4 Celestial conf
mitted the act.
A fight between general Crook and
the Indians at the Date Creek
Reservation has occurred. Gen.
Crook went to arrest two chiefs who
had been on the war path, but when
the corpoal's guard attempted to take
them, about four hunderd Apacles
poured upon the guard and killed one
soldier. Crook then seized agun and
fired upon them, killing one Apache,
and Immediately caused a company of
Cavalry to form into line and fire upon
them, which they did, killing thirty
on the first fire. The Indians then
broke and fed for the mountains hotly
pursued by Gen. Crook, with ten Com
panies ofCavalry. l'lis act of Gen.
Crook has given great satisfaction to
the Arizonians.
Miss Phoebe Cousins, anoted female
in the courts Of st. Louis,
was to lecture in Salt Lake Oh the 2lst
inst.
News from Camp Hamhangh report
the killing of a man named Ileenau by
Indians at Bear Creek. six miles dis
tmlt, Oh the 17th. Nine bullets We're
in his body. l'our mules We're driven
oil, and three men were missing. A
party of cavalry Started in pursuit Of
The indians.
The thermometer at jacksonville
stood 100 degrees in the shade on the
10th.
The Salem statesman, speaking of
he cowarlly assault made by ex-Sen-
ltnr Nnsnlith on I q Mn.alnnl of