The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-01-31
TELEGRApHIc GLEANISGs.

Sumner still continues unwell.
Greeley's monument, in Central
Park, is to cost $4,000.
Smallpox decreasing in Boston,
Only 35 deaths last week.
Nearly every railroad in Illinois
is blockaded by snow.
Congress has passed the bill re-
pealing the franking privilege.
The National Theater burned at
Washington last Wednesday.
Foster. the car.book murderer, is
sentenced to be hanged on March 7th.
Shute, cashier of the National
Granite State Bank of Exeter, New
Hampshire, has absconded, default
err to the extent of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars.
On the 23d instant General Gordon
was elected United States Senator
from Georgia, beating A. ii. Ste
pens, who will be sent TO Congress
from the Eighth District, in which
there is vacancy.
Last Tuesday in the Senate. on
motion of Senator Corbett. the Secre-
iary of War was directed to inquire
into the expediency Of cnlisting n
company Of Indian scouts TO serve
against the Modocs in Oregon.
In difficulty on the 25th instant,
in Forsey county, Georgia. between a
number of United States Deputy
Marshals and citizens charged with
violating the revenue laws, IS shots
were exchanged. One citizen was
killed and two Deputy Marshals
wounded.
In the Brooklyn Court, last Friday,
in case wherein woman claims, as
wife OF one Specr, deceased. large
amount of bis estate, decided sensa-
ton was created by the appearance of
the first husband of the claimant,
whom she deserted thirty years ago,
who was supposed to be dead.
In Chicago Wednesday night was
one of the coldest Of the scason-the
thermometer in the city ranging from
twenty 10 twenty-five degrees below
zero. At Elgip, Illinois, it is reported
81 degrees below zero at daylight,
and 20 degrees below at ten n. M
raising rapidly yesterday morning.
John X. Johnson was last Saturday
sentenced To be hanged on April 10,
1874, for the murder of Johannah
Hess OF Meridien, Connecticut. The
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tence OF death 10 be executed un-
der one year. This is the first death
sentence pronounced in New Haven
in twenty-five years.
The New York UeraleFs Paris let
ter contains an account of an inter
view with Gambetta, who declared
that the republican cause looked
brighter. When the Assembly comes
together after their recess it is proba.
BILE that the Monarchis,s will make
one more despairing effort to over
throw Theirs or reduce him TO the
position of mere Minister of the
Right. This viii be great parlia-
mentary battle.
Near London, last Friday. a terri
BILE marine disaster occurred. The
emigrant ship North Fleet, for Aus
tralia, with Az passengers, exclusive
of the crew, came into collision at
midnight, two miles off Dungenness,
with an unknown foreign steamship,
and was cut TO the waters edge
Eighty-fve persons are known to
have been saved. 1t is believed that
every other person on board found a
watery grave. No attention was paid
by the steamship to the emigrant ves-
sci after the collision.
A Washington special says that
Oakes Ames' testimony last week be-
fore the Credit Mobilier Committee,
excites intense indignation among the
gentlemen implicated in it. Colfax
declares testimony as to himself TO be
UNANIMOUSLY false. He considered it
noticeable that after his (Colfax's)
testimony had been given Ames re-
freshed his memory. Garfield char
acterized Amcs' testimony concerning
himself as a damnable falsehood. The
implicated gentlemen had meeting
this morning, and determined to wig.
orously oppose Ames' statements.
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