The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-05-03

W. D. Carter Is now sole proprietor
of the Corvallis Gazette, c.. IL. James
having retired.
A pair of mill-stones is the latest
theft IN Polk county. The mills now
in danger.
Abram Bond, convicted of forgery
in Lane county, has been sent to the
care Of Watkinds for three years.
| Three divorces were granted at the
Polk County Court last week, and tour
more are to he disposed Of.
Hubbard Bryant, Dora p. Simpson
and Eva Wheeler will graduate at
the Willamette University this year.
Mr.. A. Byerly Of Polk county was
thrown ont OF his wagon and badly
injured on Friday last. lie was iilsen-
sible when picked up.
The Stotq'io'afatsays: Every man
in the Court House on Wednesday
night blushed for shame when Fitch.
I tie Democratic candidate for Prosecrt-
ing Attorney. tried to burles1ue reli-
/ gion and ridicule old age.
Petitions are being circulated to
procure the pardon Of Joseph Hack
ney and james Cassidy, sent to the
penitentiary from Multllouah county.
aud Fillmore Frazier, sent from Doug
laS county.
4 The .itn7ag claims that Salem has
the first milestone and piano brought
to the state, and fiddle two hundred
/ aud lifly-one years old.
Potatoes are in tull bloom along the
| Coplelle.
The trail leading up the Coluelle
was completely blocsaled last week
by Il Slide from the south side Of Sugar
Loaf Mountain.
The Grand Round Indian Agency is
being surveyed into forty acre lots,
preparatory to making a division
amoag the Indians. Mr. Meldrum
heads the surveying party.
The upsetting Of Il stage enroute
from the Dalies to Canyon City Mon
day before last, occaSioncd by the hor-
Ses running away down the DoSchutes
ilill. broke the collar bone of Rev.
rhos. Condon and injured him inter
naly. Other passengers were scarcely
injured,
The Salem NqcRg says that Mr..
Isaac Maykcw, u wealthy flrmer liv-
inc near Mill creek twelve miles west
ofDal.aS, suddenly disappeared from
that vicinity. The country tor miles
around bls been searched without sue
cess. Conjecture is rife as TO the rea-
son to account for Iii strange diSap-
peMonte. His wife i almost claned.
The new style of dressing the hair is
Ia Nilsson.
\ party Of young men in Portland
intend starting a fencing club.
Corvallis is prospecting for grand
celebration on the 9Th Of July next.
Real estate to the amount Of S77.-
600 clnuged hands in Benton county
during Il recent two weeks.
Hon. Hiram Smith. one OF the dele
gates from Oregon to the National
Republican Convention pa ssed through
Jacksonville last week Oh his way to
Philadelphia.
There are five or six hundred head
Of lat cattle for sale in the Link and
Lost river countries. TheWeAthcr has
been delightful there.
Bogus $40 gold pieces are i'll cirvlla-
tion at WalIa Walla.
The Walla Walla StateSmQ5, furnish
es the following: Mr.. knowlton, one
Of the engineers on the Hne of the
Walla Walla Railroad, has found
large number of boneS in an cXcayl-
ton about ten miles this side of Wal
lula. The bones evidently belong
to the mastadon, and many of them
are i'll good state OF preservation.
They We're found BY gang of China
men who were at work on a blutt, atan
elevation of a thousand tcet above the
present brt Of the river.
At Walla Wala the store of Harris
u Marks was entered on saturday
night last and robbed OF several hun
dred dollars in coin and greenbacks,
together with gold watch. \ man
hained Faucet, who sleeps III the rear
of the store, heard the noise made by
the burglars and gave tllealarm. Mr..
Marks at once jumped from his bed,
but only in time to see the burglars
leave the door they had entered. Chase
wls made, hut the ra,caIs succeeded in
getting away with their pumder
DTihg an aitray at Wat'onyille,
Cal, on the 18th ut, Frank kunnion
was struck by pick in tie hands OF
Francisco Guy and instantly. Killed. 1
The trouble originated about a laud
claim.
Beef cattle on the loof in the Monta-
M market are worth ten cents per
pound.
The Executive Committee of the