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The Palmer House.
Tho citIrena Of Qhicago who have watched NTH 10
much tntesess md psl1s tbs progEess a thA palatsl
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08
eueeessf..l Hanging.


The four Modoc chiefs, Captain Jack,
Sconchin, Black Jim and Boston
Charley, were sent to the happy
hunting grounds" on last Friday, by
the hemp line. A few minutes after
ten o'clock on Friday morning, the
four were strung up In mid air from
the same elevated platform, where
they dangled for about fifteen minutes,
when they were taken down and ex-
amined. Scvnchin and Boston Char
ley died hard, writhing and struggling
feartully. Captain Jack barely showed
signs oflife after swinging off, while
Black Jim died easy. Examination
showed that Sconchin and Roeton
Charley had died from strangulation,
while Black Jim and Captain Jack had
their necks broken by the tall, and
hence their easy death. Captain Jack
looked the worst, and exhibited less
grit than the Others. Sconchin was
sullen and unconcerned; Black Jim
trife defiant, and Boston Charley
seemed vicious and unrepentant. The
other two chiefs tried and found guilty
by the courtmartial, Brancho and Slo-
lux, having had their sentences COM
muted to Imprisonment for life In Fort
Alcatraz, were placed in confinement
until they can be forwarded to their
future homes. There were, besides
military, quite number of civilians,
Jackson county officers, and four or
five hundred Indians in attendance to
see the show. The squaws and pap
pooses employed their time in groan-
ing, moaning and wailing until the
final taking of. The application by
sheriff's officer from Jackson county
for the murderers Of the Lost river set
tiers was refused by Gen. Wheaton, as
was a writ Of habeas corpus issued by
Judge Prim, on account oforders from
headquarters. The balance of the Mo
docs are to be removed to a new reser-
walton in Wyoming. Thus ended the
most successful hanging we have any
account of this season.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08
Illinois Corn Crops.

From Illinois exchanges we learn
that the corn crop Of Illinois for the
present year Is thirty and one-half per
cent. below that Of 1879. Under date
Of September 18th, the National Crop
Reporter gives reports from seventy
counties, which shows the crop In tine
several counties to be as follows: : In
seven counties the present condition Of
the growing corn is ten per cent. be-
low the average Of the same date last
year; in two counties twenty per cent.
below; in thirteen counties twenty
five per cent below; In seven counties
thirty per cent. below; in five counties
thirty-three per cent. below; in thir-
teen counties fifty per cent. below; In
one county sixty per cent. below.
Five counties report a condition ten
per cent. above last year; one county
reports twenty-five per cent. above,
and one county reports an average.
The average condition, for the seventy
counties, is thirty and one-half per
cent. below last year. Counties in the
central and northern portion of the
State report frost at various times from
Sept. 5 to 10Th inst, but only in one
county ota damaging nature. Allcoun-
ties reporting except extreme south
ern and southwestern river counties
speak of the pastures as severely dam
aged by the drouth, the roots in many
cases being utterly destroyed. Light,
scattering rains hove fallen in some of
the central. western and northern
counties, but not extensive enough to
afford decided relief.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08
Latest News.

Jay Cooke & Co. propose to resume
business again, and will pay every
cent they owe, principal and interest
The funeral services OF the late
Rear-Admiral Winslow transpired on
the Sd inst. in the st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Boston. A large retinue Of
relations and friends attended.
The Odd Fellows of Memphis ap-
peal to their brothers throughout the
country for aid, they having exhausted
their funds in treating cases of yellow
fever which prevails to an alarming
extent in that city.
BY order Of the President, 5000
army rations were shipped to Shreve-
port on the 4th, for the benefit of suf-
ftrers there by yellow fever.
The tobacco crop now being cut in
Virginia is the best for years,
Peake, Opdyke & Co., ofNew York,
dry goods, have suspended. Liabilities
50, 100000.
In one hour, on the 9TH inst, Chi
cago raised and forwarded to Memphis
$500 for the reliefof the yellow fever
patients.
A few days ago, at Schuyler, Ne
braska, John Talay, a young man,
while temporarily insane, killed his
father and attempted to kill his sister.
At Wilkesbare, Penn, Oh the night
Of the 4th, Geo. Law, while attempting
to rob the garden of Frank Espy, was
shot dead.
BY proclamation Of the Mayor, all
steamboats, from the lower Mississippi
are quarantined at Cairo, Illinois.
Lamper & Co., grain dealers of Bos-
ton, have suspended. Liabilities
$500 more than their assets.
At Brooklyn, New York, on the 4th
Kate Stoddard was indicted for the
murder Of Goodrich.
On the 4th the Grand Jury Of Brook
lyn indicted Courtland Sprague, ex-
City Treasurer, and Il. Rodman, his
deputy, for embezzlement.
There were 26 deaths from yellow
fever at Memphis on the 4th, and 7 at
Shreveport.
The crops having failedin Hungary,
q famine is predicted in some sections.
A financial panic prevails at Alex
andria, Egypt. Money is very scarce
mo failures yet reported.
The English Parliament has been
formally prorogued until the 18th Of
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

REMARKABLE.-The skeleton of a
mastodoL. with an Indian arrowhead
imbedded in one Of its bones, was re-
Gently found near Stanislaus, Caliior-
mia. The arrowhead was recognized,
by the monogram on it, as one FORM
erly belonging to Col. J. w. Nesmith.
1t is supposed that about the time he
was superseded in the command of the
Oregon Volunteers, who went out to
fight Indians many years ago, and just
about the time fighting was to COM
nence, he heard his family was unwell
and the feeling of insecurity caused
thereby induced him to turn over bis
claymore and shot-pouch, the latter
containing his arrow-heads, to the
Quartermaster, and ''git'' for home.
This accounts for the presence OF the
arrowhead in the mastodon, and the
reason why Nesmith's fame as an In
dian fighter will not 60 down to pos
terity with that brilliancy one could
wish for so brave taller as the Col
Onel,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08
AsAPAPER soUELcHER-Nesmith

AS A PAPER SQUELCHER-Nesmith
has notoriety that he fain would get
rid Of at this time. The first paper
suuelched was the Democrat, of this
city, in 1862; Mr.. Haley was then the
proprietor. Pat. Malone's paper, the
Union, at Corvallis, was shut up in
1853. The Register, of Eugene, run
by A. Noltner, was the next to be
visited by the wrath of Nesmith, which
accounts for Noltner's hostility to tie
nomination Of Nez., before the meet
ing OF the Convention. Noltner, hav-
Ing gone East, Is deprived Of the
exquisite" pleasure of working for
Nesmith in this campaign. The
albany Inquirer, run by w. P. Haley
and A. L. Stinson, was ''crushed"
about the same time. These papers
were crushed by Nesmith because he
thought they were in his way, as Lane
organs, and not because Of any harm
they were doing at the time, as is
proven by his letter to Bush which we
published last week.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08
Nerve Tuner.

And now comes the astonishing as
sertion that nerves, human nerves,
can be tuned like any stringed musical
instrument, and brought into harmony
with each other! An Italian (of course
its an Italian) claims to have discov-
cred a method by which he can tune
the nerves as easy as he can the strings
of a violinl His theory is, ''that
nervous systems, like musical instru-
ments, are all liable to change of tone,
and this change is of little importance
ifall the nerves change together, as
by attention to diet and temperature
the eyilmay be corrected EN- masse,
but when, owing toaccident or uneven
wear, the general harmony Of the
nerves is destroyed, a disconnected
action is the result, and a special mode
of treatment is required" of which he
processes to possess the key. The
gentleman calls himself a ''nerve
tuner" Only fancy having ones
nerves screwed up to any key. When
they are fiat they can be sharpened,
and when too sharp they can be made
natural. The all-knowing Shake
speare seems to have anticipated such
a thing when he makes Lady Macbeth
say to her hesitating husband, "but
screw your courage to the sticking
point"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

A clever statist in Paris has summed
up the pecuniary results to France by
the late war with Germany as follows: /:
War indemnity, 5000, 100000 francs /;
interest on the same for two years, 3OO,-
10000 francs; the keep Of the Ger
man troops, 273,6S7, 900 francs; requi-
sitions, S27, ,5S1, 900 francs; value Of
objects taken without requisition,
254, ,172, 600 francs; war contribution
levied on Paris, O0,0O0,00O francs,
and so on until the account forms a
total Of 6,673, 81, 900 francs. But this
enormous sum Is exclusive ofpenslOns
to the army, the damage done to ma
terial, and the expenses OF reoFganiza-
,tion, whiehswell the total to Ia, 900, 900
francs. The average value Of a days
work IN France Il one franc and a
quarter and thus 1t would take one
man 10, 900, ,OOO, 900 days or one million
ot men thirty years, to work 1t out.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

NASTY. w. Nesmith, Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress, made
such dirty, nasty, obscene speech in
Portland, the other evening, that none
Of the papers there dare report it.
Even the Democratic paper there ac-
knowledges that it was too obscene to
be committed to paper. And yet there
are people who insist on the election
of this hogshead of Ofobscenity and nasti-
ness to Congress, to the end that "Ore-
gon may be properly represented and
the moral atmosphere purified"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

WAGES IN EURoPE.-Sixty cents a
day is considered good wages for a
working man in any Of the European
countries except Great Britain, where
the wages are somewhat higher. In
the Tyrol silk region and in Italy they
often do not get more than ten cents.
In the country in Germany ten cents
Is the common pay. Women there
often get bat five cents. In Sweden
men often work from 4 o'clock in the
morning till 0 in the evening and do
not get any more. During the late
war many poor women in Berlin were
hired to knit stockings for the soldiers
for five cents. The profits Of the poor
who keep petty shops, sell trinkets in
the streets or act as suffers, do not
average more than three or four per
cent. BARRIERS in Berlin, since the
raising of their prices, get five cents
for hair cutting and two and half
cents for shaving. Servants at hotels
get from three to eight dollars per
month. Servant girls in private fam
lilies often get but ten dollars a year.
Sometimes these classes cannot get
work at any price.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

Roscoe Conkling, ofNew York, has
been nominated by the President as
successor to the late Salmon P. Chase
to the ChiefJusticeship. The appoint
ment is heartily condemned by the
Democratic press-the fact is, it is i'm
possible to suit them.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

WELL ANswERED.-A Bennington
daughter, whose domestic nature is
equal to her natural simplicity, was
invited by an Advent exhorter to join
his sect, get her white robe ready, and
prepare to ascend. II can't" the
maiden replied ''father and mother are
going.up and somebody must stay to
see to the CATTLE"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

ZION. W. II. ODELL.--Inis gen.
tleman delivered an able speech at the
Court House In this city on Monday
night, 10 o small but appreciative audi
ence. Owing to insufficient notice of
the appointment, but few of our cit
liens were aware Of the tact that the
Judge was to make a speech Oh tbe
evening in observation-disclosures the
attendance was small, probably not
over forty or fifty in all. His speech
was like the continuous discharge of
redhot shot from a battery, crushing
and sweeping the enemy before it at
every discharge. He proved every
charge he made against Nesmith to be
true by indisputable eyidence--the rec
ords themselves. He showed how
this honest farmer, Nesmith, had been
all things to all men; how good and
true Democrat he had been by using
all the power and influence at his
command to defeat and utterly destroy
it; how, through hisagency, the DEM
ocratic party had been thrown in the
minority, and how 1t has remained so,
with a brief interval, until to-day;
how, as soon as he became Z. S. Sen
ator, he commenced systematic at
tack on such Democrats as Lane and
Delazon Smith, and eventually sue
ceeded in shelving" them-in the
case OF Delazon Smith, his animosity
following him even to the grave.
Democrats will remember how, at his
suggestion, they were insulted with
offensive test oaths as condition be-
fore they could obtain their land pat
ents; while Republicans will remember
that he acted as inconsistently with
them, when, thinking Democracy was
coming into power once more, to
curry favor with that party after do
ing so much to destroy it, he, at a
critical hour of the war, struck hands |
with those who declared the war "a
failure'' and, with Andy johnson,
tried to strike the Republican party |
in a vital part, so as to aid in killing
it as effectually as he had the Demo-
cratic party. Hw soon did this loyal,
honest Senator forget the close
friendship he professed for General
Grant, when he loudly proclaimed
him the fittest man for President in !
the United StatesP How long was it |
before he (Nesmith) spoke of Grant as
a drunken Democrat?" and even
now does he not, in his speeches in
this canvass, denounce Grant as the
greatest thiet in American" and
while vilifying Grant does he not abuse
and SANDER every member of his Cab
met, and every prominent Republican
in Congress? And if he should be
elected to Congress, unfortunately for
Oregon, judged by his spastrecorl, how
long would it be before he would try
his game of double-dealing with prom
inent Democrats of Oregon, whom he
might imagine were in the way of his
ambitious designs for selfin the future?
In the face of such record, it is not
possible that Republicans are willing
to let the election 60 by default lit
cannot be that Democrats, who still
retain their selfrespect, wish the sue
cess of such q man.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

A MIsTAKE.-0ne of the assertions
Of Nesmith and bis friends is, that he
never takes back anything. This is a
grave error. When in Congress it is
a matter Of record that he took "back
pay" 50 easily and naturally that one
would conclude that it was an old
thing with him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

At the meeting OF the California
Democratic State Central Committee,
held a few days since, the Treasurer
announced that there was S62 OH hand
with which to carry on the campaign,
and only one candidate to assess. The
"boys" will find the sinews of war
wanting ON election day.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

The Democratic cry has always been
freedom Of speech" and freedom of
the press" The party shows its re-
spect for the sentiment by nominating
man for Congress who suppressed
fonr Democratic papers in Oregon, on
personal grounds alone.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08
FINANCIAL AND COMMERC1AL

Gold In New York, 1l1L.
Legal tenders $1,000.
Wheat in Liverpool 12s 7d@12s Cd /;
club, 13s@l3s I'd.
No change in San Francisco, Port
land or home markets.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

1t is stated that the U. s. Govern
ment will not turn over to the Oregon
authorities the Indians indicted for the
murder Of tie settlers on Lost river.
They win be extradited withthe balance
of the Modocs to Fort D. A, Russell
in Wyoming.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

WORTH HAVNG.--The Greenville
AdUocOae: says that Miss Mirande
Thompson shears sheep, and on Sum
days wears the biggest hustle to church
Of any Of 'eml Bully for her.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-10-08

A colOred man named Wade kindled
his last fire with kerosene at Little
Rock, Ark, the Otherday.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-07-31

The editor of the Texas New Yorker
hns gone to predicting what Ia TO be
the near future Of the United States.
First, he predicts that o, S. Grant will
either succeed himself for u third term
or will name his successor. Next, that
the Democratic party, ms II party, will
never again have u name or place In
the history Of American politics.
more progressive party will rise upon
ilsrnins. Third, he predicts n war or
new treaty between the United States
anu Mexico, the resultof which will be
that the former will obtain u large slice
Of territory from the latter, embracing
the States Of Coahulla, chihuahua, Sc
nora, LowerC fornia, Sinaloa, Duran
so, and n part of NOVA Leon and Ia
maullpps; and finally, that ''Cubn, san
Domingo and the West Indies will III
tlmatcly fall into the Iup of the United
States, ns natlrallyas ripc apple falls
of the ground"
All this, and more too, Is duly re-
corded, we believe, on theRadical slate
rs the programme hid down, aud part
ofall Of which may be attempted to be
carried out But we must confess our
establishment and regret to see our old
friend of the New Yorker giving them
aquasi endorsement
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-07-31

WIN purchase and sell lands and city prop-
erty, investigate and perfect titles, locate land
certificates, md collect claims In any part oj
the state; Prompt attention will be given ali
business intrusted to us.
Refer to Mai. w. W. Walton, Spencer a Me-
Gill, Austin; Ball, Hutchins h Co., II, y.
George, Galveston; T.. r. Hart 4 Co., Wheel.
ock, Finlay 4 Co, Now Orleans; W. h. Green
Louisville, Kentucky; Cochrane, McClaue x
Co., w. II, Schie1in 4 Co., New York: VIII
son, Hood 4 Co, Philadelphia; Marinaduke
4 Brown, 1t, Louis, dawsm
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TEXAS ITEMS.

The Montgomery Press says that the
worm is reported in cotton fields in
that county, but rs yet have done no
serious damage. Several good rains
fell in Montgomery county last week.
Montgomery has the usual amount OF
candidates for Office,
A telegram to the Galveston News
reports heavy rains in Falls county,
hut the cotton crop is splendid, while
corn will be short. A house was struck
by lightning IN Murlin, on Monda +,
but no one hurt. No worms in the cot
ton, and health good.
The Waco Examiner says there are
''some thousands of visitors at Lam
passas, and they are still arriving a, the
rate of one hundred n day. The
healthfulncss of the waters of Lam
passas Springs is provcrbial all over
Texas.
Ed. Quick and ]. w. Glenn, the new
State Biologists, are said to be catching
lizards between Austin and Webber-
vile, thinking them to be geological
specimens. San Marco Times.
The Supreme Court of the State adj
journcd on the 10th inst, to meet again
on the 18th of August.
The notorious Jack Helm, one of
General Davis State Police, was killed
last week, near Scguin, by a man
named Hardin.
THE card of S. A. Sayrc & Co., will
be found In our paper again. Yester-
day these gentlemen We're receiving by
far the largest stock Of fresh drugs and
medicines they have ever yet had.
Give them call.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-07-31
n CARD.

We are doing an auction and com.
mission business, at the corner of Elm
and Market streets "a prominent point,
in this beautiful and growing city, and
we solicit consignments of flour, grain
live stock and everything needed by
this rapidly increasing population.
We are also doing II real estate bust
ness - buying, selling and locating
lands, examining titles, paying taxes,
collecting rents, etc. We sell at public
or private sale, rs instructed. and make
liberal advances on consignments. Our
motto: "Quick sales and prompt re-
turns" References: Swindells &
McCaleb, Editors and Projectors of
the Dallas Herald; Adams & Leonard,
Bankers, Dallas; CASTOR, Thomas 4
Baylor, Bankers and Insurance Agents,
Dallas; Capt. G. M. Swihk, Dallas;
Coils. Sneed & Finley, Attorneys at
Law, Dallas; Mcssrs. Shryock & Row.
land, St Louis; 4. c. Jordan & Co.,
Bankers, Dallas Robt. Hare, Caron-
delet St, New Orleans.
Respectfully,
NJ, A, HIBBLER 4 co,
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Circular.
OFFICE OF CoMpTaoIi.ER or /
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS,
AUSTIN. July - 1924

AUSTIN, July =, 1873.
70 the Alsessors and Collectors of ----
county, Texas; @li
The following correspondence and
Instructions are publlshed,for your in
formation and guidance, VIZ:
"lion. VIM. Alexander, Attorney General:
"Sll; respectfully call your atten-
Ton TO the provisions of an act to re-
I, Lease certain taxes to the residents of
the counties Of Montague q al
hoconstltution provides that tax
nt'on sinai be equal and uniform
throughout the State. This Act tnxos
one portion of the State to support the
governmental machinery of dc whole
state and exempts other portions. Ii
taxes, for State purposes, one part and
exenpts another Of the same county
and ~ cxempts, in like manner liz
property of one class of property hold.
ers, and requires II different class oWn-
ing property In said county to pay
"Ihe constitution sets aside twentv-
nve percent. of the,revenne for sehool
purposes This act appropriatcs this
revenue for a diiiercntpurpose. Isnot
ms law yiolative of The, letter and
spirit of the Constitutions An earlv
opinion Is solicited.
IN Your obedient servant,
N'e"e"} a. BLEDs0E,
Atf s"Comptroller.n
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-07-31

WE had the pleasure of IL call yester-
day from Hon. G. w. Honey, late
(and, as he claims, stilD Treasurer OF
the State, who visits our SECTION of the
State in the interest of his paper, the
Ye.rds Commonwealth, u new weekly
paper which he has recently started in
Austin, devoted more particularly to
We enter the new paper
ON our exchange list with pleasure.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-07-31

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market REPORTS Of the laly, the WEEK
IN llRnALn stbe eldest paper rpNp wv
published In Texas nnrill of Ausllll WI.
Ia ~ political course lnd rs ? lal n,',
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hd0nce OF tho licOpN ol NOrln'in 'N1i,
Aiming 20 retain uroll iflunds nn,l gn,i'
many more new ones we r"pNcllHlN 7"'
llcll iha nyOr OF the people.
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Jhe9ailg4erala
ID. srcCiLEB, Editor.
IMPORTANT no THE FRONTIER
CyuXrgIy.

We publish to-day, to the exclusion
Of other mntter, n clrcularirom Acting
Comptroller Phillips, which Is import
ant TO all the frontier counties. The
Attorney General pronounces uncon-
stltutlonal the act of the Legislature
exemptlng ffty-dve counties from
taxes for three years.