The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-03-07

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Elder Stephenson will continue his
course OF lectures, the mkt occurring
on Sunday evening at the Court
House.
a sermon on temperance will he
delivered Mt the U. p. Church, at IL
A. NJ. Tomorrow, by the pastor Of
that church.
lfvon wish to keep thoroughly pos
ted in everything Of interest going on
Mt hoae or abroad, subscribe for the
REGISTER.
Gnf& Collar have a new style of
spring bed which Is said to he the
cheapes' and best ever invented. Go
and see It.
onr old friend Roop. who has been
residing IN California for some months
past, came up on the hist ocean steam
er' He says Linn county can getaway
win any other county he has seen.
and he comes back to stay.
The people are demanding the
abollshment of the princely revenues
paid to State and county officials, and
the substitution of moderate salaries,
salaries sufficient to compensate them
for all tlle services rendered the people.
Mr. N. Baum left us on Monday
for San Francisco. where l,e will p,,r-
chase large stock of clothing. gro
ceries, cruckery ware and general
merchandise for this market. Baum
lsa liberal dealer. and deserves the
popularity he has achieved.
Never scare off fly with club
when a feathrr will do rs well, or
throw hammer at a spider on the
wall when a child stands between You
and yom aim-you may miss the spi-
der. @
whenever yon get in passion, set |
down in tnb of hot stIds for a mo- |
ment-it will divert yonr thoughts
into a different channel, and may re-
store yonr equalabraham. cl'here is
considerable glless-work about this.l
At Jefferson on Saturday night, the
Gnngers held meeting in the room
over E. N. Thomas store. Through
some defect the fire kindled by them
communicated to the building, and
came within an ace Of getting away
with building, store and all.
On Wednesday Mart. Taylor re-
ceived the baLjo that formerly be-
Hanged to VIM. Pelton, the man who
was killed at Harrisburg. We are
informed that Pelton had been offered
$500 for the instrument before his
death.
Albany Farmers Company intend
large wharf in front Of their
warehouse Oh the Willamette, and
a!so an addition to the building
capable ofholding 100000 bushels of
grain.
A day or two since we received, from
the Government Printer at Washing
ION. a letter envelope from which the
contents had disappeared. There was
he envelope, properly directed, but
here was nothing else Int the envel-
'pe. Was this caused by rough and
'areless handling on the way. or was
he contents extracted. stolen2
We have it from the Granger that
he Williams Bros. lately from
europe. have rented one hundred
cres Of land from Mr.. Burkhart. and
intend entering into the cultivation of I
lax. They will cultivate the Russian, {
hat being considered best for fiber.
A few days since, at Halsey, the {
ged parents Of Bart. Allen departed !
MS life. Mrs. Allen, aged " years, S
led on a Wednesday. and her hus- t
anil, aged 70 years, died four days
forward.
The strife for office at the Demo- {
ratio Convention to-day will be i
nuSUaIIy warm. as there are an I'M 2
sIIally large number Of candidates a
Iowever. those who fall to get nom Il
'ations can consider themselves fortu- c
ate. as they will save time and money o
Y the failure. f.a fl
Aithouse % Go. are putting up u
lditional lock-boxes for the postoflce. p
usiness is growing apace, and more
'xes are demanded.