The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-03-01

for taking change from bis employ
er's till and forgetting to return i.
Wing You, Of Portland, was
fined $50 for stealing $40 last week.
Poor investment.
Chickens were only SO 25 per
dozen in Portland last week.
A man named KRAFT, . gardener
by vocation, died suddenly at Nc
Minmille, Sunday before last.
The submergence ofthe hollow
logs on AIiLto's Island by the late
fresI,et, is supposed to have soaked
the breath out of foae hu,drel tllous-
and coois.
A gang of children. says the
Portland Bulletin, ranging from
ten to fifteen years Of age, made an
attack upon an iinotfending Chinese
woo,lsawyer. who was quietly walk
ing along the street, and heat him
so'severely that had il, not been for
assistance he would have been laid
uFgAasitswaSitis bead. .sRss siRaten
almost to jelly. Portland seems
to be cursed with a lot of boys who
arb making rapid strides in that
sort ot education which will gradu-
uate them at the gallows, or in a
Pcnitentiary cell:
A lady passenger on a recent trip
ofthe Dixie Thompson from Port
land to Astoria, caused some excite
ment among the females on board.
1t was suggested that the little
stranger bc named Dixie Thompson
QlintL -
A five year old boy, named Geo.
Miller, was severely burned in Port
land last week, by pulling a kettle
of boiling water off of the stove.
a young man named G. Moe,
from Cathlamet, w. r., having
a small bill Of drugs, in
on Wednesday forenoon
of last week, was taken sick, and
lied at the st. Charles Hotel on
The Friday afternoon following.
The number Of children in East
between the ages of 1 and
20 Is 3i4, Of which l55 are females
and 159 males, an increase of 40
over last,ycar,isays tic Era.
East Portland now has a hat fac
lQry in full operation.
There are new revelations about
Joaquin Miller It appears from
4 San FraGcisc66 letter to the Yeks
Jomnal that he has with him at
the first liamed city girl fourteen
Or fifteen years old, who, he says, is :.
his daughter, her mother being o.
Modoc Indian. What new sensa-
lion about Joaquin will next ap-
pear::'
The Y tab Southern Railroad
Company are gong oil immediately
with the work Of grading around
,he point Of the molhtailint Utah
county. Contracts have been let
or twenty.seyea sections around
he point, amounting to 225,000
ards ofearth., The contractors, are
,arIisle & Brothers.
Amarried woman forty-fiyc years
# age and weighing two hundred
md forty pounds, repelled a burg
ar fIpnlshGr rO6m7in SaE Francisco |
cccntly, by chopping him repeated
y on ale.'head with an AZ.
A French girl, Of San Francisco,
made twpr Intellectual attempts to
lrown lerselflast week, because her
over had forsaken her.
Tic Salem Saies,ajto,a Of last
week has the following: Our liquor
are rs0ated oas Of their
even senses by the last few days
york, for they realize that the teH-
'erstSss cause use, hass ~ snch . hold on
he popular mind lg that it eaunot be
asily dun-i-way with. ii!
fySN f9H ~ sYsA
The Portland post Office is being
ulargeG 70 accommodate the grow.
lg bnsinesss Nga j4ah
SSla 6s'pcr day vashlAe cost of
prisoners in Portland last
'Oi's%' -, i,
Aburglar in Portland last week
M atvaAf tti4if a Aoak and on .lo "a,