The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-08-22

larger and m,Ge powerful chlony,
numbering from fifteen Ia twenty
thousand persons now making prep
arations to immigrate to this c"tin-
try. The first party Of the new
colony will reach here early in Oc-
tober. They i,clude many wea thy
families, and will, il is said, bring
with them from Sl4, 900 900 to Sl5,-
600 OOOingold. Their agents have
selected lands in Iowa, Nebraska,
Minnesota aud Dakota Territory for
their location.
In Louisville. Ky } on the Sd
ins'., Mrs. West shot her husband
in q street car, il,tllcting a severe
wound. The parties came u that
city a few days ago from st. lA'uis,
and secured rooms at the hotel on
Friday. The wife secretly left
town and started for st. Louis, but
was arrested by telegraph and
brought back. While going home
together III the street car, the woman
suddenly drew a pistol, placed it
against her husbands side and fired,
when the other passengers interfered
and she was disarmed. The hus-
band asserts that his wife is subject
to attacks Of emotional insanity, and
went her bail.
In the cigar mandatory Of
Steinhart Bros. & Schonlake, N.
Y, August 18th, while Ephraim
Steinbart, brother of one Of the pro-
prietors, was standing behind Sam
uel Schonlake, he shot him and
then shot himself. Steinhart had
been discharged from the employ Of
Schonlake, which was supposed to
be the cause of the shooting. II
was thought the latter would live.
In a fit ofjealousy, on the even-
ing of the 10th, at Brooklyn, N. Y,
William Anderson, aged 2l, stab
bed his intended wife, Ann Gun.
ningham, aged "A, eleven times,
and then stabbed himself three
times. The girl is thought to be
fatally wounded.
The Agricultural Department re-
ports that the probable wheat yield
for 1873 will be two hundred and
twenty million bushels.
The mechanics in Parson, Kan
sas, have held o meeting and i'm
plored the local papers to stop their
glowing accounts Of the "advanta-
ges'' offered by their town. They
say that the place is already over
crowded, and they "want . rest. y
This is is something entirely new in
Western experiences.
John Houghtaling, Of Rochester,
is said to he the Oldest railroad con.
ductor in this country, having begun
work in that capacity in 1889 and
continued ever since. His travels
have in length equaled about forty
times the circumference of the globe,
and altogether he has had several
accidents, only one of which has
been at all serious.
Rev. DR.. Pirstley, the eloquent
United Presbyterian divine, in Pitts
burg, Ps., who was disciplined some
time ago, for eccentric domestic ar
rangements, has rented a hall there,
and proposes to start an independ-
eut Presbyterian church Of his own.
"Pretty bad under foot" said
one citizen to another, as they met
in the street. eyes; but it's fine
overhead" responded the other.
"True enough" SAID the first, "but
then very few are going that way"
The Connecticut State Board of
Education has taken charge of the
little Italian boys who have been
kept in a state little better than
slavery in New Haven.
Gen. Butler has now given q
corner lot in Gloucester, Mass, for
the erection Of a Methodist parson-
age.
A man has recently been fined
$40 and costs in Dedham, Mass,
for killing one woodcock out Of sea-
son.
]. H. Ripely, a clerk in the Post