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


State by 10000.
Speaker Dlaine carried every pre-
cinct in his county at the recent elec
ton IN Maine.
Lewis G. johnson, son of ReverlJ
! Johnson, has been nominated for Con-
gress BY the bolting Republicans Of
North Carolina.
The total emigration from foreign
countries to the United States from
1851 to 1871, was 2,320.4S4. OF this
number, $40. .122 We're from England
and Scotland, and one-half of the rest
were Tent1lis-from Germany, Swe-
den and Norway.
| Greeley arrived in indianapolis,
md, on the 23d inst. He was escort
ed to a hotel.
The heaviest rain storm ever known
IN Milwaukee occurred there on the
I'D. and continued until noon the next
day. Streets and cellars were flooded.
Barns in the country were struck by
lightning and consumed. A girl at
Piayma, young man at Hebron, and
two men in Greenfield, were struck
dead by lightning.
In Chillicothe. Ill.,, on last Saturday
night, Henry McNulta, Il drunken
beast, beat his wife to death. A mob
could hardly be restrained from lynch
ing him.
The young man on his way to Cali
fornia who was tleeced out of $4,000
by gamblers last Saturday night. turns
out to be Henry Sloan. confidential
clerk in Q Hartford, Connecticut, Bank
ing house, who robbed the institution
of$5.OOO and started to 60 west.
President Grant returns permanent
ly to Washington from Long Branch
this week.
AT a fire at Phillips dover village,
Me-. on Monday last, nine buildings
were consumed.
The President has appointed l.. II.
Kaufman, of Washington, Thomas
Underwood, of Lafayette. Ind, and A.
e. Sands, of Cincinnati, Commission
erS to examine the North Pacific Rail
road.
Postmaster General CpsweIl left
Washington on the Dist for Ohio,
where he will take part in the cam
paign.
The iOurneymen carpenters Of Chi
cago struck Oh the 23tl, for 81 per day.
They have been receiving So % and
50 80. 1t is thought all the employers
win accede to the demand.
President Grant has written letter
congratulating Gen. Dix and the peo-
pie of New York on his nomination
for Governor. and predicting his cleo
ton as certain.
1t is rumored in New York that
the Union and Central Pacific rail
roads are to be consolidated.
Five hundred and eighty Mormon
emigants. composed OF Scandinavians
and English, left Jersey City for Utah
on the 18th inst.
The President was to visit the New
Jersey State Fair at Waverly on the
18th. and the Newark Exposition in
the evening.
The people of Nashville want Gree
lev to visit them.
James J. Johnson, appointed to the
Sub-Treasury at New York some six
or seven years ago by Sub-Treasurer
Van Dyck, is reported defaultcr tor
over one hundred thousand dollars.
His whereabouts is unknown,
Farrell, a keeper in Wards Island
Lunatic Asylum. N. Y, has been
adiudged guilty Of cruel treatment
towards two patients, who died from
the effects.
Detectives are in Search of Johnson,
the deftulter. He has been man of
great responsibility. aud it is supposed
he frittered away his money OH Wall
street.
President Grant has expressed HIM
selfas pleased with the result of the
iIld,tsm claims arbitration case. In
his opinion it was not for dollars and
cents, but the preservation of anlity
between the two countries. with a full
and firm maintenance OF national Dig
nity. that was contcndcd for, and
these points hav ny been achieved. the
nation should be satisfied.
Greeley spoke at the st. Clair hotel
at Pittsburg, on the night Of the 18th,
and then left for Cincinnati.
Failures in mercantile firms in New
York are becoming quite frequent.
A couple of immediately gotten up
individuals of tile male persuasion, on
the Vermont and Massachusetts Rail-
road. lately sent a package of pop
corn 10 young lady in the same car,
and were rewarded with four black
eyes BY the lady's husband.
Iowa has an unfortunate jury; a
man who weighs 4O3 pounds sits OH
it.
President Grant visited the State
Fair at Waverly, n. j., on the 10Th,
and was welcomed by 4 large con-
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