The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-04-11
EASTERN NEWS.

The public debt was decreased ST.
GA. .058 last month. The outstanding
legal tenders amount to $45S,5O9, ,Q7.
The State Department positively de-
nies the reiterated assertions of the
resignation of Minister Low and the
removed Of DE Long.
Stokes is confident that the efforts
now being made to save him from the
gallows will be successful.
A new phase Of the Goodrich mys-
terry is that JAS. Knox, now prisoner
in Jail at Brooklyn for forgery, who
was four years on the New York po-
lice. claims to have information that
would lead to the detection of the
murderer of Goodrich, but refuses to
reveal it unless the charge against him
Is dismissed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny will expend $l0,WO,OOO In that
State during the present year, the
most of it going to the building of two
additional tracks to Philadelphia.
A plan is being agitated at st. Louis
to connect the new post office with the
railroads centering at the new Union
depot.
In the late disaster of the steamer
Atlantic, one woman passenger was
confined only six hours before it Oc-
cured.
Nixon, sentenced to be hanged at
New York OH the 18th Of May, be-
came utterly unconscious with fright
after sentence.
A disgracetul fight took place in the
lobby Of the House at Trenton, ~,
on the 4th. 1t grew out Of debate
the day before IN which Mr.. Carse call
ed James NJ. Scoville perjured man
and a sconndrel. At the time Of the
fight. Mr.. Cole aud John Hood were
quarreiing, when Scoville came up and
mixed III. Cole called him liar, and
was Immediately knocked down by
Scoville. The Speaker ordered the
doors closed. Before it was done,
Carse rushed into the fight. Scoville
knocked him down. and gave him a
tremendous whaling while down. The
Mayor of Trenton then interposed,
and prevailed upon Seoville to leave
the State House.
A centrifugal machine, in sugar
refinery Of Baltimore burst on the I'd,
killing one person and wounding two
Others.
Only 100000 has been awarded
against the United States by the Brit
ish and American Claims Commission,
and the remaining cases cannot give
more than all equal sum.
Representative Brooks is very low
with sickness in Washington, and his
friends are anxious about his recovery.
AT the funeral services Of Rev. Ea-
ther Maclain, in Trenton, Del, on the
3lst ult.. at St. Johns Catholic church,
u cracking noise produced a fearful
panic among the congregation. In the
rush for exit, women and children
were trampled beneath the crowd,
which became wedgtd about the doors
for about ten minutes. Many present.
ed a shocking sight as they were pull
ed out by stalwart men. Ladders
were elevated to the windows and peo-
pie taken out. The total number in
jurel was twenty persons, nine of
whom had died and Others were In
dangerous condition. The cracking
noise emanated from kneeling boards.
A widow named Elizabeth Hedge
was murdered at Eureka, ILL.,, last
Sunday. She had $3.50 in her posses
sion. The body WIS partially eaten
by hogs.
The death of Mrs. James Gordon
Bennett Is announced by cable. ItOc-
Cured at koenigstcin, Saxony.
The Newark Cooperative Colony
OF New Jersey, propose to settle In
san joaquin Valley. The society is
composed principally Of men with cap
ital Of from two to fifteen thousand
dollars each, A meeting was held re-
Gently to organize, and elected the fol-
lowing officers: Henry Wilson, New
ark, President I; Warren, Vice Pesi-
dent; Francis Duffy, Treasurer.
These officers, with d Board of Trls-
tees viii have charge Of the govern
ment Of the settlement. Rules for the
government of the future town were
adopted They contain clause among
Others that no license for the sale Of
liquors shall be granted, Ten persons