The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-04-19
albarg s9eoistrr.
EASTERN NEWS.


balrks. The waters of the Lickin,
swept down into the Ohio, carrying
twenty loaded coal barges from
pittsblug and fifteen from othe
points.
Thirty-fve deaths occurred fron
smallpox during the week endin!
on the 18th, at New York.
A bill has been introduced int
the State Senate of New York in
creasing the salary of the Governo
to $4,000, and other officers pro
portionately.
Over sixty buildings were de
stroyed by fire in Titfin, Ohio, Oh
the 18th inst. Loss, heavy.
Lake navigation is opened.
Great damage was done by {
storm on the 18th, extending the
entire length of Lake Michigan
through the states of Illinois and
Wisconsin.
1t is reported that Gov. Palmer
has written letter to Senator
Trumbull avowing his intention
to support the Cincinnati move
ment.
\ fire occurred in Shamokin, Pa,
on the 18th, burning hotel and
nine dwellings. Loss, 10000.
Thirteen families were left home
less.
Hon. Erastus Cornelius, Of Al
bany, n. ", is reported dead.
An inquest was held in New
York on the 9th, on the body of
DR.. Woodruff, husband of Victoria
E. Woodruff, and returned YER
dict that an overdose of morphine
accelerated an attack of pneumonia,
producing death.
1t is now reported that Senator
sumner las announced his inter-
ton Of supporting Grant, it he be
nominated by the Philadelphia
Convention.
About Sl13, 40, 600 Of the called
bonds have been redeemed, leaving
only nine or ten millions yet out.
The Massachusetts, House, by a
vote Off yeas to 1876 nays, refused
70 order the woman suffrage bill to
the third reading.
Gov. Palmer, Of Illinois, refuses
to identify himself with the Mis-
souri, liberals. and don't want to be
a candidate for President because
lie isa personal friend OF General
Grant.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States has refused to issue amanda
mus to compel the Secretary of the
Treasury to lay the Kentucky war
claims.
The following States have al
ready declared for the re-nomina-
ton Of President Grant; Pennsyl- |
vania, Indiana, New Hampshire,
Maine, Georgia and Ohio; and the
States OF Ohio, North and South
Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ar-
kansas, Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland, Mississippi, Florida,
Texas, New York, Massachusetts,
.Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska and |
Missouri, will doubtless insist OH his
denomination.
A Democratic paper in New
Orleans says that the colorel peo-
pic Of the South last year produced
commodities valued at two hundred
millions of dollars. A few years
ago the same Journal used to argue
that they would never work unless
a lash was laid upon their backs
three or four times per day.
.Abram Linn was killed and rob
led of $500, and his body hid i'll a
mill sink, at Baltimore, Nd, OIL the
10th.
Edwin Forrest has been very sick
at Boston, but is now recovering.
The bridge over saddle river
rear Hackensack, on the New Jer- I
scy and Midland railroad, gave !
away on the 10th, precipitating a
passenger train into the river. The
brakesman was killed, the conduc- !
tor badly injured, and twenty-five +
Or more passengers more or less in
iWed. The water was very low in
the river, or none would have been ! !
saved. .
The New York Post declares the /
reform Legislature to be a failure.
The Indian Appropriation bill II
has passed the House of Represen- ?
fotix,ac II