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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
The Oldest Man in New York.

A letter from Cuba, N. Y, says: /
called on s. Father Abner Huntly," who
has long resided in this place, and has
just passed his 10th birthday. He was
born in Massachusetts,, Aug. 5. 1867.
He was 8 years old when the revolu-
tionary war began. AT the age of Is
he took his fathers place in the conti-
mental army as substitute. He was Is
years old when the war closed was %
years old when the first President was
elected, for whom he voted, and was 30
years old Mt the death of Washington.
He has voted at every Presidential elec-
tion since. He converses freely and
with interest and intelligence on topics
that transpired in the last century, and
relates minutely events that transpired
under his own observation during those
times on his last birthday ht went to
Olean, where he celebrated that event
at the house of his grand with
about so of his descendants. He rode
on horseback, which has always been a
favorite sport with him, told stories of
his daughter, and entered into the
sports of the children. Before he was
100 years old he usually broke a young
horse to the saddle every year, and
cared little how wild one. He saws
now, " The boys are getting notionaI.
and will not allow him to ride Young
horses, for fear that he will get hurt.
He has not been sick in the past ten
years. and never was severely sick. He
has been Il temperance man in all his
manner of life; social, and naturally
looking on the bright side of every.
thing trouble, like medicine, :. he has
thrown to the dogs" He is a firm be-
lever in the Christian religion, and
loves to talk about the future as he
does about the past.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Extraordinary Prophecies.

A German paper publishes the follow
2 The prophecies of the Monk Tran
quill Wolfgang, died at Munich, 1873.
"1S74. Strengthening the Spanish
republic. Dissatisfaction in France.
General ornaments in Italy. new
chief of Government in France. Death
of Pins TX.
1875. War between Italy and France.
The Italian armies besiege Paris. De-
feat of the French army. italian occu-
patton of Algiers. National plebisci-
tum in Corsica, Nice, and Savoy, and
Corsica incorporated with Italy. Rev
olution ia Spain, and fall of the Gov
ernment. The pestilence in Russia.
Prince Fritz German Emperor. Revo-
luton in England.
"1S77. Communism and famine in
France and Spain. European congress
in Rome. The new Pope reconciled
with italy. General armament in
Europe. France divided into four states.
Inundations and hurricanes in Italy.
Great cold in Germany.
"1s7s. A new European congress in
Berlin, Death of Queen Victoria. New
Governmentin Spain. The Christians
in Turkey are free. Dissatisfaction in
Portu yal. Poland. and Hungary. Chol-
era in France. Discovery of remedy
for cholera in Bavaria.
aI879. Great storms in England.
Universal peace. General disarma-
ments. Great discoveries at sea. The
Pope reforms the church and suspends
the order of the Jesuits.
1850 to 1890. Peace. The Pope
blesses all nations.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

to my room at eleven, but did not sleep :;
on the contrary, I again sought the open
air. and strolled about alone. BY sun
rise, / had come to an unutterable de-
termination.
Before breakfast. ] met the Judge,
who was glowing with kindliness to me,
and | inquired about the state of his
health.
Excellent! he said, laughing.
But Maysie slept but very little last
night; really can't imagine what is
the matter with the child.
My he1rt beat violently. I told him
that I too had slept but poorly, and had
therefore come to him.
:" To me-? he exclaimed, astonished.
am no physician.
But for ne you may be, dear Judge,
for your daughters picture drove all
sleep from my eyelids last night.
The murder was out. He did not
look unfriendly, consequently gather
ed boldness, and began to tell him about
my antecedents, my present position,
prospects, etc, when suddenly he cut
me short, saving - Oh, bother! don t
speak of thar Old Judge Moonshine
has enough for his daughter and his
daughters husband both. You have
proven yourself a true hearted man, and
that is the chief thing. I shalt never
stand in the way of my daughters hap
piness. You suit me first rate, and if
May will have you, all that shall have
to say then, is, bless you my children.
al don't remember now where I
found Maysie, and how it all happened
but I do know that escorted little
angel 10 breakfast that morning, who
had promised to be my wife. The we'd
ding takes place two weeks hence, and
both of you are invited.
g The rude postoftice clerk ?" asked
| Sam, incredulously.
8 No, that judgment has been cor
rected-the faithful and Trustworthy
| official, whose traditional sternness be
came the bridge to happiness for yonl
humble servant and lis beloved
/ bride !"
| S I'M and I both were at the wedding,
and no one. excepting the happy groom,
| danced oftener with the blooming little
/ bride than did my morose friend of tho
| posteffice. Sam still grumbles about
his luck; but if lie conldn't, he wouldn't
| be happy.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Queer Life-Insurance sniff.

The Berkshire Life Insurance Com
pany has a curious suit on IFS hands,
growing out of the peculiar death, last
spring, of Mr.. s. NJ. Cooper, Il farmer
in Stockbridge, Mass. His father and
grandfather had each died at the age of
Al years, and he foretoid that he should
die at the same age. Although appar-
emily in sound health, he prepared to
meet his fate as the date drew near,
and, few days before the time when
he expected to die, he went to Pittsfield,
had his will made, and, stepping into
the insurance office, applied for q s., 600
policy, having already one of similar
amount in company in another State.
He was pronounced sound by the COM
pany's doctor, paid his premium, and
took his policy. The next day, before
he reached home, he was taken sick
with some kind of fits, as it was pro-
nounced. and, being taken home, died
soon after, in his 4Ist year, as he pre-
diced. His administrators, L S.
Butler, of Lenox, and G. l.. Lynch, of
Stockbridge, applied, after due time, to
the insurance company for the amount
OF the policy, but, payment being re-
fused, they have brought suit for $10.-
600. with A. j. Waterman, of Pittsfield,
as counsel. The company hesitate in
the payment OF the claim because they
think the assured in his application and
e1amlnatlen failed to- acquaint them
with symptoms of disease which he must
have felt, but, if a full investigation of
the case shows that Mr.. Cooper was
perfectly honest in the matter, the mon
ey will be vii ingly paid.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
IIuInOrs

"UNMANNED by the loss of her hus-
band is the new style of indicating
widows grief.
THOUSANDS of poor men are spendin -
as much for newspapers as would bu
a good mint julep every day.
THE child when once started in tn
course of evil conduct is like a loconG
tive or the wrong track-it takes th
switch to get it off.
Foolish fathers who send boys into
the country with fowling pieces and
pistols are the best friends the under
takers have during vacation season.
WHEN fellow talks too long, and
there are signs of a coming funeral, it
is the correct thing to hand him card,
| npon which is inscribed, 9 Hire hall. /"
In point of comfort, though not of
safety, the London cab is acknowledged
to stand above the wheelbarrow, says
the London Echo, which is presumably
competent to Judge.
"WHY do you use paint ?" asked a
violinist of his daughter. For the
same reason that you use rosin, papa"
6 How is that ," "Why, to help me
draw my beau"
One of the professors asked student
to give him an example of a mixed meta
phor. The boy confidently spoke out
"When my tongue shall forget her cum
ming, and my right eye cleave to the
roof of my mouth.
"The elevation of women +" ex-
claimed my Lord Tom Noddy, as he
was driving home from Ascot. Aw-
if a fella wants to see-aw-women ele-
waited, he should see 'em at the WAGES
aw-after good lunch.
DoN'T lay me on the river bank amid
IL.
is watered by the earlysummer showers;
but put me in the kitchen range and
open wide the damper, and then my
vaporous remains can up the chimney
scamper.
AN English clergyman exclaimed in
company of his fellow-preachers, "Ah
we'll, there is only one thing in our min.
istrations more trying to me than
preaching" Indeed" they said,.
"and what may that be ?" "Hearint
any one else preach, he replied.
A GUARDIAN of the poor. old Mr..
Gsunsnetes-"G Green peas and new
'taters Does your mother know that
them sort o things leads to the work
'us!' Boy" Know {? Course she does.
That's why she has 'em now, cos she
knows she won't get 'em there.
JOHN SMITH. determining to be un-
like all other John Smiths, appeared on
the Common, lately, in the role of a nat
ural curiosity. He had three ears
one on each side of his head, and an
other, recently nipped from the head of
Tim Donovan, between his teeth. .-BOs-
ton Journal.
THE latest case of absence of mind is
that of gentleman living in one of the
suburbs, who, seeing an omnibus pass
by, hale the driver and got in. After
riding part of the way home he sud-
denly remembered that he had left his
horse and buggy standing at the corner
where he just saw the bus
DIR. -, entering military hospital
surgery, met Paddy Doyle, the orderly
and asked which he considered the mos
dangerous of the many cases then
the hospital. 'sThat, sir, y said Paddy
as with an Indicative jerk of his thum
he pointed to where, on the table, lay
case of surgical instruments.
How DOTH the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How chez erfully 1t seems TO grin,
How neatly spread hiss claws, -
And welcome the little fishes in
With gentle, smiling jaws
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
The Temperature of the Ocean.

Dr. Carpenter recently delivered / q
| lecture before the London Royal Insti
tuition, on the Temperature of the
Ocean," showing, from the soundings
made by the Challenger Expedition, that
| the difference of climate between North
| western Europe and the North Ameri-
can Atlantic seaboard is due not to the
course of the Gulf Stream, but to the
| circulation of the waters of the ocean
between the poles and the equator. The
shores of Northwestern Europe have
| the benefit of tue northward movement
| of the warm superficial stratum. while
/ the temperature of the American coast
! is lowered by the surging up against it
of deep glacial underflow. The fact,
he says, comes out most clearly from
the Challenger soundings, which had
! been suspected by the United Coost Sur
veyors- that the cold band which separ-
ates the Gulf Stream from the United
/ States coast is really continuous with
the cold strata that lie at some depth
beneath the Gulf Stream, and this con-
| tinuity explains the presence of the cold
band which was previously wanting for,
! as any flow of water from the equator
toward either pole will tend toward the
/ East in virtue of the excess of easterly
momentum it brings from part of the
| globe where its rotation was rapid, SO
any flow of water proceeding from either
/ pole toward the equator will tend toward
the west, II virtue of the deficiency of
easterly momentum which it derives
| from part of the globe where its ro-
tation was less rapid. In this urging
upward of the deeper and colder stra-
tum lying beneath the Gulf Stream, We
have very distinct evidence of it's south
erly movement. The precisely similar
cold band which has been observed by
Capt st. John to separate the Kuro
1.-Two, or warm Japan current, from the
coast may be fairly attributed to the
same cause. FROM Popular Science
Monthly.
THE proverbial skill of the Chinese in
anv Industrial art and at initiating every
European invention, is known to every
BODY: but it appears that the Hindoos
are not behind their neighbors in that
kind of enterprise. The native gun
manufacturers of India would soon out
rival the British workmen themselves,
if the Government of Calcutta did not
think that for political reasons this was
branch of industry not to be encour-
aged in the uative Indian subjects Cf
Engl nd. Such was the opinion ex-
pressed by Lord Mayo. when he was
lately shown an Enfield rife converted
into Snider. The JOB was done
to such perfection that it was difficult to
detect the difference between the Gov
ernment Sniders and the one manufac-
tured by the native Sealkote blacksmith,
though he had himself to make the
whole of the brsech piece, including
springs.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
A Famous Battle-Ground.

4 temperance mass meeting was re-
Gently held onthe ground where occurred
the battle of Tippecanoe in 1911, at
which meeting an address was delivered
by Hon. Will Cnmback, ex Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana. The following
description of the field is furnished by
correspondent
In company with a friend, I walked
leisurely over the ground for the purpose
of recalling the history of the celebra-
ted battle and viewing the spots which
once drank mp the blood of so many
noble men. The battle-ground proper
embraces between thirty and forty
acres, and is inclosed by an iron fence
1t lies on the borders of Burnet's Greek,
seven miles northeast of Lafayette,
Ind. Beautiful shade trees are scat
tered through it here and there, and a
rich green turf covers the entire
grounds. At one side a large grove
offers protection from the burning rays
of an August sun to company of ten
thousand or more Above is as pure an
atmosphere as any one need desire to
breathe.
On these grounds, changed but little
in appearance from what they were halt
century or more ago, the army under
| command of Gen. Harrison encamped
on the night Of the 9th of November,
1911. Says John B. Dillon, in his 'His-
! tory of Indiana - The army encamped
in order of battle. The men were or
| dered to sleep with their clothes and
aceoutrements on-with their fire arms
loaded and their bayonets fixed. 1t
seems, however, that the principal off
GERS of the expedition did rot expect
that the Indians would, on that night,
make an attack. But about two honrs
before sunrise, on the 7th of November,
an attack was made so suddenly that
the Indians were in the camp before
many of the men could get out of their
| tents. "
Every one who knows anything about
the history of the early Indian wars
knows how iercely this noted battle
ragged, and how many men fell to rise
no more. As I stood on the small piece
/ OF elevated ground where, it is said, the
! Indian prophet encouraged his follow
/ ers by singing war song, imagined
I could hear the voices of Coils. Daviess
and Owen, cheering on their men also,
until the fatal bullets did their work
where the gallant Warrick fell, pierced
| through the body. He insisted on re-
naming at the head of his company,
/ although death was stamped on his
pallid features"
The merry laugh OF few romping
girls attracted my attention to another
| part of the grounds. g Major Davies
/ fell there" remarked country gentle
man familiar with the field, g and lit
tie further that way (pointing north).
/ Col. Owens, of the Eighteenth Ken
lucky, received his wound which SO soon
proved fatal "
Here is where tie men charged, y
continued the same gentleman, g and
| right by that tree five Indian chiefs were
found dead" There seemed to be
scarcely square foot Of ground within
the inclosure that was not marked by
some important event which occurred
| on that memorable day, and / do not
wonder the field is visited so often and
| by SO many scores of strangers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
sARA1a JANE SYLVESTER.
Bx EUGENE j. HALL

Bx EUGENE j. HALL.
sssss asE
Twas on summer eveEing,,
little while ago.
That Sarah Jane Sylvester
stood waiting for her beau.
She was . rustic maiden
0f 9ear.y seventeen.
Her haBtss We're plump and rosy,
Her face looked rather gre.n.
hen she was in dreamy
And seuti4u entail st0te,
Her favorite amusement
Mas swinging on the gate.
The world was still about her,
The folks had gone to bed,
Down by the gates he listened
Fer SeiaA Bgckiin's tread.
She claspetl her hands together
Her lover she deserted;
Ie strobe mp to the gateway
And stood {the other side1.
And soon, in tender whispers,
They talked, as lovers do:
Tae stars were shining Ger them,
The moon was shining too.
At length he popped the question,
She sighed and hung her head,
Said she, = Why Selah Blcklin,
Jest think what YOU have said !"
He drew her nearer to him
He kissed her rosy cheek,
Nken-suddeniy she threw him
Away, and gave ShJifE
Down on the ground b, fere her
Tall Selah BUckii1i bowed,
To - stop he did lIupipTe her,
From a screaulin' out 80 loud"
50 YcnIl scare up all the neighbors,
Don't hotter, Sarah Jane,
I d14n mean ter fetch ye,
1 never Will again y
Rut louder yet she shouted,
Nor needed what he said:
From out the bedroom window
The old man popped his head.
And like g Bull of Bashan."
lie beloved, 80 What's TO nay -
50 Lord knows, , said Seiah Eucklin,
While Sarah swooncd away.
He gazed a single moment
Upon the seaseiess girl,
His heart was in fipttsr,
His brain WAS in a whirl.
Then on the grass he laid her,
And when he task was doLe,
down the dusky highway
He niInbly cut and rum"
While from the farmhouse doorway,
The old man III despair.
With his s11spenders dying
Behind him in the air,
Come :. tearing down the pathway
To where the young girl lay.
{The sound Of Sseiah's footsteps
Had nearly died away.
The father knelt beside her,
sudden moan she made;
Said he, g Sal, what's the matter,
What made ye SO afraid -
Then amid her tears she marmured,
In hysterical alarm
g Kt's-dn-airt,ti- caterpillar.
4n'-he's-eratciifa'- = 'tp-n3y arm :
reside friend
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DEAt ON JONES, ExpER1nsc =,
BY BRET HARrE.

ARKANSAS coEFERENcE-I874
BY BRET HARTE.
Yer right when you lays it down, Parson
Tibet the flesh is weak and a snare;
And to keep yer plow in the furrow
When yer cattle begins to rare
Amt no sure thing. And between u
The same may be said of prayer!
Why, / stood the jokes, ON the river,
or the boys, when the -critterssfgund
That Ia jined the church, and the smoker
Thet, maybe ye mind, went round,
The day sat down with the InOnrners,
In tho old camp meetin' ground
stood all that, and reckon
might, at pinch, stood n ore
For the boys, they represents Baals
And 1 stands as the Rock Ct the Law,
Aud it seemed like a moral crimmage
In holdin' agiu their jaw.
But thar's crosses a Christian suffers
As hez'nt got that pretense-
Things with no moral Purpose
Things ez hez got no sense;
Things eZ, somehow, no profit
Will cover their first expense.
Ez how! I was jist last4even'n'
Addressin' the Throne of Grace,
And neither kneit in the corner
Ard each of the boys in his place
When that sneaklng pup of Keziah'ss
To Jonathans cat Civ chase
never let on TO mind ,enl,
/ never let on to hear,
But drove that prayer down the fufrow
With the cat hidin' under my cheer,
And Keziah whisperin' s. sic herT
And mother a sayin.'s you dare"
asked for light for the heathen,
To guide on his narer track,
With that dog aud that cat Jest waitzin',
And Jonathan's face Jest black,
When the pup made q rush, and the kitten
Dropped down on the small of my back.
Yet, I think, with the Lud's assistance
l might have continered then,
If eettin' her holt, that kitten
Hed'nt dropped her claws in me-when
1t somehow reached the I" Old ADAM"
And jumped to my feet with " Amen.
So, yer right when you says IT, Parson,
That the flesh is weak and a snare,
And to keep yer plow in the furrow
When yer cattle begins to rare
Aint no snre thing. And between ms,
says it's iist SO with prayer.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
How ThimbIes Are Made.

The manufacture of thimbles is very
simple, but singularly interesting.
Coin silver is mostly used, and is OBJ
tanned by purch sing coin dollars.
Hence ithappens that the profits of the
business are affected instantaneously
by all the variations in the nations
greenback promises to pay. The first
wicked, for it is nothing else than put
ting lot of bright silver dollars, fresh
from the mint, into dirty crucibles, and
melting them up into solid ingots.
These are rolled oat to the required
thickness, and cut by stamp into
circular pieces of any required size. A
solid metal bar of the sizeof the in
tended thimble, moved by powerful
machinery up and down in a bottomless
mold of the outside of the same thlm-
BILE, bends the circular disks into the
thimble shape as fast as they can be
placed under the descending bar. Once
in shape, the work of Frightening, pol
ishing and decorating is done upon
lathe. First. the blank form is fitted
upon a rapidly revolving rod. A slight
touch of sharp chisel takes a thin
shaving from the end, another does the
same on the side, and the third rounds
off the rim. A round steel rod, dipped
In Oil and pressed upon the surface,
gives it a lustrous polish. Then little
revolving steel wheel, whose edge is a
raised ornament, held against the re-
volving blank, prints that ornament
just outside the rim. A second wheel
prints different ornament around the
center, while third wheel with sharp
points makes the indentations on the
lower half and end of the thimble. The
inside is frightened and polished in a
similar way, the thimble being held in
a revolving mold. ALI that remains to
be done is to boil the completed thin
bles in soapsuds, to remove the oil,
brush them up, and pack them for the
trade
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SAM,S LICK.

H's-dn-atrt, : caterpillar,
n-hes-eratciia'- '-gtp-mg- ar
- -FTreSfde friend
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SoMETHINa about dogs-Fleas.
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31

ground has spent nearly $4,000, 900 on it,
and have not yet opened the claims belong
ing to the Company. No new law, nor can
any other law, prevent men from selling and
buying property. 1t is no hardship to a
poor man to sell property for good sum.
Mr.. Sargent's bill gives nothing to the
railroad that the railroad now has not. 1t
gives to the speculator in lands no privileges
or advantages he now has not; it gives min
ers and farmers many advantages in settling
lands and in occupying them that the law
does not now give. The bill will abolish
contentious which has been the detriment to
this part of the couutry.
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31

FISH WITH STALE BREAD.-Dip fiat dish
in hot water to prevent cracking; smear it
with butter, and sprinkle pepper in it, then
a layer of salt fish picked from the bones
and divided into small pieces, the fish should
be soaked little to take the salt out; then
another layer Of bread. and little melted
butter without milk poured over it. Repeat
as often as needed for the quantity Of fish.
Smooth the surface with a spoon, and sprip-
kle lightly with fine bread mixed with pep
per. Place in an oven for twenty or thirty
minutes. 1t is nice dish for any meal.
Civilty costs nothing aud buys every
thing.