The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-10-18
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

Gold bearing quartz Is being looket
for along Snake river above Lewiston
Tulnwater Is improving fast.
A buckskin purse full of bogus golt
dust was found hn Florida Mountain,
hear Silver City, the other day.
Salem has a Photographic machine
and gallery which travels about OIL
wheels.
Olympia is now within sixteen miles
of the railroad.
A little daughter of G. II. Benson.
OF Union county, accidentally got
hOlt ofa bottle containing some kind
OF poison. last week. and drank some
of the contents. from the effects of
which she died.
Enslgns new wagon road from the
mouth Of Goose Creek to Hog 'em and
Eagle Creek mines. in Baker county.
Is nearly completed.
! The new Baptist church at Olym-
pin cost $1,000.
The game law is being enforced in
Washington Territory.
Walla Walla county pays as much
of the Territorial tax as any two other
counties In the Territory. $l3.G30 1G
for the current year.
J. II. Torley. San francisco, was
found dead in his bel on the morning
of the 10th.
The Springville Post Office has been
discontinued, and the mails will be
distributed ut Portland.
n gambler named Wash Brady.
stabbed a man named ClaS. TrObe. at
Vancouver four times. last week.
Jealousy was the cause. The wounds
were serious. Brady was arrested.
The Jewish Yom Keeper, or Day of
Atonement, began Oil last Friday
evening at shutdown and continued
until Saturday at shutdown. 1t was
generally observed by that people.
The farmers Of Union county have
organized an Agricultural Society, and
have elected the following officers f.
Shoemaker, President; ". q. Snnl-
grass, Secretary V. ID. Hannah. Vice
President, and j. L. McC0nms. Treas
urer. A BOarl of Directors was ap-
pointed, and Committee on Grounds
of one person from each precinct.
Thomas Ryan. Oh his way from his
farm near Columbia Slough last week
to East Portland with a load of hay,
fell, and broke his neck.
The gold quartz mines of IIog'em
are yielding handsomely.
Judge Locks, of Benton county. was
badly hurt last week, by being thrown
ont ofa wagon by the team running
away.
SO far during this month. the Clerk
Of Marion county has issued eight mar
riage licenses.
The Salem .Ne,cUy has the follow
Ing: "A young lady named Johnson. |
IN the Convent School. for some cause
or other. was struck on the head with
a pointer used at the blackboard. !
BY one OF the Sisters, and fell flintiny
to the floor. Upon seeing the effect
Df the blow. assistance was Immediate
y rendered and all efforts made to re-
store her. In the meantime one of the
little ones slipped ont of
the door and ran to the young la,ly's
home AMI informed her mother of
what had happened. Mrs. j. lastcn-
II to the Convent and found her child
h weak AMI miserable condition.
lnd after a lengthy explanation as to
lcr opinion of their actions. took her
hree daughters and went IOnp.'
4 Baker county correspondent
rlyS that two ClliIMw0men got into
! row Mt Sparta IN that county
asst week. when one of them comnit-
el q most fearful outrage on the other
The details are too frighttill to relate"
ays the writer. The mrpctrltor was
rOned and taken to l'nion, under
,lmrl.
Over six AMI IlElrter1nlillion dol
aFs have been collected ut san Fran
'isco rs duties. during the past year.
The mother Of Laura d. Fair. dis
pwinted ut the verlict IN the Fair
aSe, attempted suicide Oh the 10Th
nSt. The stomach pump saved her.
Money orlers are now being issued
t the Postoffice IN Olympia payable i
u Germany. ,
The Orey,ni"n gives an account Of i
II old gentleman and his wife. esid- !
Ig IN that city, who are keeping the
cad body Of their son, now IN 4 tie
state. the mother being im-
reSstl with the dclusiou that her son !
IN y trance, and will come to life.
he case was to be investigated. >
San Jose. Cal. was visited hy
eavy sllock Of earthquake on thu
eth. n
During the quarter ending Scptenl- I
PIP 3O 1872 Az VeSSull I'M sSed tho a