Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

The Prince of Wales is recovering.
Brigham Young has returned to Salt
Lake.
Arabella Goddard, the great pianist,
of London, is coming to America in
1872.
Letters from Persia reveal terrible
state OF dcstitution among the residents
there.
Twenty tons of eggs were shipped to
San Francisco from the East on the
2Sth of last month.
The Confederate General John C.
Breckenridge died at Danville, Ken
tucky, December 9th.
The board of Indian Commissioners
report that they have saved about $780,
900 in their purchases of supplies.
Gounod has composed an operatta,
The Lamentation commemorative
of the late war in France.
A Poughkeepsie lady is in despair
Her six boarders stow away go cakes,
ordinary size, every morning.
TEA OvERLAND.-On December
2sth, $50 tons of China and Japan tea
was cent by overland railroad from San
Francisco TO New York
San Francisco offers n subsidy of
three millions to the California Central
t. r. Co, to establish the terminus of
that road at Mission Bay
The highwayman who robbed the
stage Of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S treasure,
on Christmas night, between Heads-
burg and Cloverdalc, was young man
only fifteen years Of age, and weighing
seventy-6ye pounds.
The Western Pacific railroad Mt the
head of Alameda canyon was broken
by freshcts and badly daniagcd. Cars
were unable for several days 70 run
through TO Sacramento.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, dated
December 27th. says there were SIT
passengers laid up there by tho snow
blockade The eating houses improved
the opportunity by charging 50 per
| meal.
New York women arc said to surpass
in folly and extravaganza the women Of
every other city in the world They
are now supplying themselves with
| handkerchiofs which cost their fathers
aud husbands from 5000 to 5000 apiece
Terrible loss has been sustained al
through California and Nevada, by the
late storm Land slides have occurred
on the railroads. property washed away
along the rivers, and general destruc.
tiou reported On Union Island in the
| Sacramento river, , 900 head of sheep
were drowned.
A STRANGE CAsE-Mr. Chambers,
station agent at the milford branch
I of the Boston and Maine Railroad,
died a few days since from the bite of
his little daughter, mere child. She
had been suffering a short time with
diphtheria, and the father, for some
reason not stated, put his hand III her
mouth, which she seized and bit with
Just force enough to break the skin.
The virus in the childs teeth penetrated
the wound aud was diffused through
the system. After q weeks illness,
during which time the body of Mr.,
Chambers become much swollen, he died
Prof. Chandler, editor of the Ameri-
can Chemist states in that journal that
when solid nitrate of silver is placed
upon glowing charcoal, defagration
takes place, the result being that silver
| is left behind in the metallic state. The
curious phenomenon attending the re-
action is that the nitrate. being fused
by the heat of chemical action, sinks
down in the pores of the coal, and as
each particle of the latter is replaced
by the reduced silver, the structure of
the original wood is retained. In this
way he has succeeded in producing
masses of silver weighing an ounce or
more, which show most beautifully the
rings of annual growth 10 the wood.
The author advises that crystal of the
nitrate be placed ON the end of stick
of charcoal, and the blow>pipe fame
! directed upon the coal beside it to start
the reaction. AS soon as the deHagra-
ton sets in crystal after crystal may be
added.
WATERING TEAMS OFTEN.-Horses
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