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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-31

A Salem man set fire to a load 0
hay the other day because the dri
yer Of the team hauling it refused
to turn out Of the road.
The second number ofthe Baker
City Journal has reached us. One
side only white; the other, an at
tempt had been made to print.
Independence is to have news
paper. 1t will be a localpaper, de.
voted to the interest ofthe Indepen-
dence aud vicinity. success to it.
The people at Dallas do their
own wood-sawing and wash their
own linen. They have not a Chi
naman in the town. Portland could
spare them a few.
Miss Shreye, a young lady and
two children were thrown from a
buggy by a runaway horse, near
Dallas last week, but fortunately
no serious damage was done.
A oummerville astronomer an.
nounces, for the benefit of those
that did not get to see the comet,
during its recent visit to the earth,
that it will appear again in 2157.
The Farmers of Polk county can
scarcely get hands enough to run
their threshers and headers this year.
There is work for a great many
hands Just now. Wages are 81 SO
per day.
A Mr. Hobson and his son, Of
Sablimity, Marion county, were
both somewhat damaged by trying
to stop a runaway team last week.
The son was run over and the faith.
er badly bruised
A little daughter Of w. Bilger,
ofWiIlow Springs, jackson county,
while playing with a knife a few
days ago, hurt one of her eyes very
severely, and it is thought she will
lose the sight of it.
A young man named Leverton
got into a fracas at Weston last
week, and when the constable went
to arrest him Leverton beat him over
the head, put spurs to his horse and
made good his escape.
II there is one thing more than
another that Polk county needs,
that one things is good bridges.
Nearly every bridge in the county |
is either in need Of some slight re-
pairs or is actually unsafe to travel
over at all.
In Polk County the farmers are
all busily engaged putting up their
hay. The timothy crop is not very
heavy, but made up tor by the
wild oats ofwhich nearly every far.
mer has an abundance and tits liked
nearly as well as timothy. Hay is
selling from $4 to Sc per ton in the
field. Grain is fast npening this
warm weather. Fall grain will
be ready for the headers by the hrst
week in August. All creals give
N appearance OF a heavy yield, oats
oeing especially heavy.
The camp-meeting held near the
Milton Millss, on the Toucbet, by
he Cumberland Presbyterians, con-
inued for two weeks closing on
;abbath before last. The attendance
vas good throughout the meetings
nd very large on the Ssbbaths.
he campholders fed and lodged
ratuitouSly, all who did not come
repaired to take care ofthemselves, (
nd pasturage and feed wasturnish-
for their horses. This is thecus-
I'M Of Cumberland Campmeetings.
he order ofthe people was never
stter in any part Of the world.
A return emigrsnt wagon pass.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-31

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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-31
Murder i'm Albany

Murder i'm Albany
HAsNEvER YET BEEN KNOWN, AND
IL no threatening of it at present.
Death
Is a thing which sometime must befall
everyson and daughter Of the human fam
lily {; and yet,
AT the Midday,
Of your life, if disease lays his vile hands
upon you, there is still "a balm in Gilead,"
BY which you may be restored to perfect
health, and prolong your days to a mirac1-
lous extent.
HOW /?
By calling on
IL. G. HILL 4 SON,
With prescription, where you can have
II compounded by one experienced in that
particular line. Also, constantly on hand
a good assortment of fresh drugs, patent
medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, dye
stuffs, trusses, etc, Agents for the
Celebrated INK Weed Remedy,
Or. Oregon Rheumatic Cure; DR.. D. Jayne
& sons medicines, etc.
Spence's Positive and Negative Powders
kept in stock Also agents for the
Home Shuttle Sewing Machine,
One of the most useful pieces of household
furniture extdnt. Call and examine.
II. G. HILL h SON.
Albany, June 10, 7l40vS
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-31

HASNEvER YET BEEN KNOWN, AND
IL no threatening of it at present.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-31
Death

Is a thing which sometime must befall
every son and daughter of the human fam
lily; and yet,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
A Dark Picture.

Mr.. Disraeli draws the following dark
picture of Ireland at the present time
I have made a note of the provisions
of the Coercion act, which were extend
ed by the Lord Lieutenant In 1870, and
have been extended subsequently, SO
that now, believe, they apply to elev-
en-twelfths of the whole country. In
the first place, persons out at night I'M
der suspicious circumstances may be ar
rested by any constable. Secondly,
strangers soiourning ill a district may
be arrested by constable, brought be
fore a magistrate and examined as to
their mode of livelihood, and their OBJ
ject in being in such district, and unless
their answers are satisfactory, or they
can produce persons to find security for
their good behavior, they may be sent
to jail Thirdly, newspapers may be
warned, and afterward become forfeited.
Fourthly, the sale of grmpowder and
arms is subjected to stringent rules.
Filthy, grand juries are authorized to
present moneys to be levied for payment
of compensation to persons whose rela'
tives have been murdered, or to persons
who have been themselves injured.
That was in the year 1870. In 1871 this
stringent measure of coercion was not
found adequate. A supplementary bill
was brought in and passed into an act,
and this Peace Preservation act was
continued till the year 1878. And in
1873 it was proposed, and successfully
proposed, to continue these acts until
the year 1875; and Ireland at this mo-
ment, | believe | may say, is governed
by these laws, which in severity an
not saying that the severity is not nee
essary refrain from entering on any
question of that kind-but is governed
by laws of coercion and stringent sever
ity that do not exist in any other quar-
ter of the globe. Well, then, is it moi
perfectly absurd to pretend to talk Of
the tranquility of Ireland, where a MAJ
cannot go out into his garden after din
ner and look at the stars OF see which
way the wind blows without the risk Of
being arrested by policeman
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
Disreali's Victory.

The change of Government through
which Great Britain is now passing, al
though attended by many picturesque
and exciting circumstances, is not likely
to be followed by any important or far
reaching consequences. The Liberal
party has suffered great defeat. The
Lii eral leader has been reduced, per-
haps permanently, to theranks. Butitis
difficult to see in what the liberal tenden-
cies of England have met with any seri-
Gus check. The questions upon which
this canvass was conducted had little
deep political significance. Mr.. Glad
stone went before the country standing
upon the surplus in the Treasury and
promising the abolition of the income
tax. He asked from the people a
repetition of the vote of confidence in
his Government which he had recently
received from the House of Commons,
and the voters failed to give it. This
puts the Conservatives for the time
being into power, but they do not as
sumo the responsibilities of the adj
ministration burdened with any COM
mitments or definite policy. Thousands
of people voted against the Liberal
candidates merely because they were
tired of Mr.. Gladstone. Ordinary hu-
man nature is SO constituted that the
contemplation of high moral excellence
excites an emotion not entirely devoid
of fatigue. Mr.. Gladstone was too seri-
Gus and too irreproachable to serve for
ever as popular leader in free nation.
But his defeat does not prove that the
party which has overthrown him has
won permanent victory. They de-
feated him once before, within a year
But the accidental character of the de-
feat was SO evident that Mr.. Disraeli
expressly refused to take up the reins
he had struck from the hands of the
great Liberal. He knew that he could
not govern with the present Parliament,
and he was clearly not ready to appeal
to the country. When Parliament was
dissolved the act was denounced as a
trick of Glads' ones, and the general
feeling of resentment against him no
doubt contributed somewhat to his de-
feat.-Ne1D York Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
A Lesson for Americans.

Mr.. Joseph Medill, ex Mayor of Chica-
go, writing from Paris to the Tribune,
of the former city, speaks of the econ
omy of the French. He says
=" But that in which the French more
particularly excel is economy. Com
pared with these French people the Amer
leans are wasteful, improvident, and ex-
travagant. It seems to me they live on
lust about one-half what the Americans
do. They have knack, so to speak, of
making little go great way, and OF
extracting subsistence or comfort from
or never notice.
1t may be instructive to point out a
few of the matters to which reference
is here made. In the first place, not an
ounce of food is wasted in harvesting
or preparing for market. In the next
place, not an ounce more of vegetable
flesh, fish, or fowl, groceries or liquids,
than is really needed, ever goes into the
pot or kettle, or is placed on the table.
The wife of every French family knows
to nicely what quantity of each kind
of food is the least that will suffice to
make comfortable meal, and not n par
tice more than that is cooked or served.
There are no slop-buckets full of bro
ken victuals left on the table after break
fast or dinner, to be thrown on the
street or manure heap, or flung to the
dogs or swine, as in America. Nopieces
of bread or meat or vegetables are
| thrown away /; such quantities are not
bought as to become stale or spoiled in
the cellar or pantry. Servants are never
permitted to waste or steal food for poor
relations, as in America. The lady of
the house looks after the marketing, her
kitchen, and her pantry with sharp eyes
and unfagging care.
The economy in the consumption OF
fuel for cooking and house warming is
immense as compared with that in oul
wasteful country. One reason, of course,
is that wood and coal in France are
scarce and dear. They cost at least
double the price paid therefor in the
United States but the domestic con,
sumption is not one-quarter as much.
Paris contains between four and five
times the population of Chicago; but
I find that the fuel consumed in it is
less than in Chicago. 1t is true that the
climate is much warmer for six months
of the year in Paris than in Chicago
but after making the due allowance fol
that it still remains true that only one
third to two-fifths as much fuel is con
sumed per capita in Paris as in Chicago
and, as far as my observation and in
quiries extend, the same proportion
holds good throughout all France"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
Use of CATS Whiskers,

Every one has observed the whiskers
of Il cat /; but few, perhaps, dream that
they serve any valuable end. The
following passage will prove the con-
trary:
Every one must have observed what
are usually called the whiskers on a
cats upper lip. The use of these in a
state of nature is very important. They
are organs of touch. They are attached
to bed of close glands under the skin,
and each OF these long and stiff hairs is
connected with the nerves of the lip.
The slightest contact of these whiskers
with any surrounding object, is thus
felt most distinctly by the animal, al
though the hairs are themselves in
sensible. They stand out on each side
in the lion, as we'll as in the common
cat so that, from point to point, they
are equal to the width of the animals
body. If we imagine, therefore, IL lion
stealing through covert of wood, in an
imperfect light, we shall at once see the
use of these long hairs. They indicate
to him, through the incest feeling, any
obstacle which may present itself to the
passage OF this body; they prevent
the rustic of boughs and leaves, which
would give warning to his pray, if he
were to attempt to pass through too
close a bush and thus, in conjunction
with the soft cushions of his feet, and
the fur upon which he treads (the re-
tractile claws never coming in contact
with the ground), they enable him to
move toward his victim with stiffness
greater even than that of the snake, who
creeps along the grass, and is not per-
ceived till he is coiled round his pray.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
Religious Items.

The Baptists in New Hampshire have
eighty-five churches, containing an ag
gregate membership of S,096.
The General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South is to con-
vene in Louisville, Ky, in May next.
THE church choirs in Boston are said
to cost the sum of $142, 900 annually, a
sum sufficient to comfortably support
100 missionaries.
THE church property in the city of
New York is valued at $4S, 900, 900. The
church buildings of the various denomi-
nations number 359.
THE statistics Of the Texas Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church
show net increase for the last year of
TIC members and eleven churches.
THE Baptist Missionary Union is
now in the last quarter of the financial
year, and unless $16S, 900 are raised be-
fore April l, the treasury will be in
debt.
THE salaries of the Bishops in the
Methodist Episcopal Church aggregate
the sum of $50, 600 per annum, with the
addition of about So, 1000 for travelling
expenses.
REV. DIR. STRArroN, of the Methodist
Church, has been talking temperance
statistics on the largest scale. Clergy
men cost $12, 900, 900 yearly; criminals,
$40, coo, 900 (rather low estimate if we
include rings; lawyers, $50, 200, 600 ;
Intoxicating drinks, 500, 100000. The
city of Now York invests $65, 900, 900 in
manufactures, 100000, 900 in seventy
one banks, and 5000, 900, 900 in the liquor
blIsineSS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
Effects of Worry.

A writer in Chambers Journal says
That the effects of worry are more to be
dreaded than those of simple hard
of persons who suffer most from the eff
fects OF mental overstrain. The case
book of the physician shows that it is
the Spectator, the betting man, the
railway manager, the great merchant,
the superintendent of large manufacto-
ries or commercial works, who most fire.
quently exhibit the symptoms of cere-
bral exhaustion. Mental cares accom-
panied by suppressed emotion, occupa-
lions liable to great vicissitudes of for
tune, and those which involve the bear
ing on the mind of multiplicity of in
tricate details, eventually break down
the lives of the strongest. In estimat-
ing what may be called the staying
work, it is always necessary to take
early training into account. A young
man, cast suddenly into position in
volving great care and responsibility,
will break down F; whereas, had he been
gradually habituated to this position,
he would have performed its duties
without difficulty. 1t is probably fol
this reason that the professional classes
generally suffer less from the effects OF
overstrain. than others. They have had q
long course of preliminary training, and
their work comes to them by degrees
therefore. when it does come in exces
sive quantity it finds them prepared fol
it. Those, on the other hand, who
suddenly vault into position requiring
severe mental toll generally die before
their time.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
A Lunatic Ball.

In the recent annual ball at the
Lunatic Asylum at New Haven, CT,
twenty couples took the floor, ranged in
two lines, facing each other, and stood
still in profound silence waiting the
music. In this party the strangeness of
the performers was most apparent. The
men wore look upon their faces of
such resolution as one would expect on
with some terrible danger. The women
were more wandering in their glances !;
but nearly all were serious, too. The
music burst forth, and simultaneous
movement followed; all sorts of move
ments, some cultivated steps, but for the
most part mere violent shutting exer-
else. Directly they all seemed to have
forgotten that they had partners, and
settled down into dancing. There was
some popularity about every individual,
but in every one was observable a sort
of ecstacy. One girl, with wild, dark
eyes, and her black hair hanging loosely
around her neck, would occasionally
pause, as if trying to rccollect where she
had acted such a part in other scenes,
but, glancing at the company all en-
gagged around her. she would resume
her motions. Some of them kept their
gaze fixed on the ceiling, turning neither
to the right nor to the left others kept
watch upon their feet, which, to their
bewildered minds, were perhaps going
sadly astray. Very soon the organiza-
ton lost shape the original partners
had wandered hopelessly away from
each other. But, with instructive gal
lantry on one side, and gentle acqui-
escence on the other, the men swung
and twirled whichever lady happened to
be within reach at the moment when
they thought the music indicated
Swing your partner.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
ISOthermal Lines.

These lines, as their name indicates,
arehnes OF equal temperature, and vary
greatly from the lines representing the
latitude OF different localities. 1t would
naturally be supposed that localities sit
nated at the same distance north or
south OF the equator would be of the
same average temperature throughout
the year, but an examination of a map
on which isothermal lines are repre-
sented will show a remarkable variation.
Take the isothermal line of forty degrees
OF animal temperature. 1t runs through
the southern part of the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, thence south OF Iceland
and through the center OF Scandinavia.
1t is as warm ON the western coast of
Europe as it is on the eastern coast of
the United States, 600 or 800 miles
further south. Grains will ripen in
these ATTITUDES in this ratio. A similar
statement is true of the west portion OF
the United States. Take the parallel
Of fifty degrees of equal annual temper
ature-it runs by Albany, the south
shore of Lake Erie, through Northern
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21

When the women of Ohio began their
assault npon the liquor shops, almost
everybody supposed the movement
would be nothing more than the tleetlng
excitement of an hour. The ladies
would parade the street, and assemble
in the churches, and sing hymns, and
carry about the pledge for signatures,
and thrust the pencil into trembling
and beery hands would keep little
towns and villages in turmoil for few
days, and exact all sorts of impossible
promises from unwilling sinners but
we were not to expect a practical result
from such extraordinary and irregular
proceedings. Even if the women were
stout enough of heart to withstand the
ieers, and insults, and brutal remaks
that would certainly assail them, and
vigorous enough in body to endure the
long watch of prayer, hour after hour,
day after day, from early morn till the
night was far spent, the time must soon
come when the spiritual excitement that
inspired the crusade would die away, to
be followed by the inevitable reaction.
But two months have now passed, and
the women are more earnest than ever.
Driven out of the bar-rooms they kneel
in the muddy streets; which may be
cleaner after all than sanded floors be-
strewn with the refuse of conviviallty.
They mind neither the cold winds nor
the pelting rain. All manner of engines
of defense have been brought up against
them without avail. Here an unre-
generate saloon-keepers throws snuff
into the midst of the praying band.
There an irate ruffian assaults them
with poker. Vulgar caricatures are
displayed in the shop windows. Coarse
tests are heard as the crusaders march
through the streets. The law is invoked
to prevent trespass upon private premi-
ses and interference with legal occupa-
tions; and in this part of the defense it
is important to notice that the whole
sale liquor dealers are helping the
rum-shop keepers with money. Never
theless the crusade goes on, and the
roll of victory lengthens every day.
1t is apparent that we have all I'M
derrated the strength of woman's en-
thusiasm and devotion. The generous
and Christian impulses are something
more than outbursts of sentiment
they are important forces in the gov
eminent of society. If the Ohio tenn
perance movement can be guided with
reasonable discretion, it may regener-
ate the whole region. 1t will not, of
course, destroy intemperance, and
probably it will not permanently check
the sale of liquor but it may make
drinking more disreputable, and save
thousands of men whose case is not yet
hopeless.-NeW York Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
Oatmeal.

Americans are gradually waking up
to the fact that oatmeal is by no means
an unimportant article of diet. AS a
food, the merits of which have stood
the test of centuries, and which is cal
culated to promote the sanitary interests
of the nation by laying the foundation
of more hardy and vigorous constitu-
tions for the coming generation, let us
regard its general adoption as an article
of diet as nothing short of national
good. Its phosphorescent qualities act
as gentle and healthy stinulant to the
brain, and on no other food can one en-
dure SO great or SO prolonged mental
labor as on oatmeal porridge. Properly
cooked, it is not only most healthful
and nutritious food, but it is decidedly
palatable, as is fully attested by its
wonderfully rapid adoption as popular
diet by the very fastidious palates of
our American people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21

A PROFESSOR OF FELoNY.-A Profess
sor of Felony was recently arrested in
Cincinnati. His name was John Carney,
ana manuscript was found on him en-
titled a Lecture on Thieves" with a
schedule of prices for 100 lessons, as
follows !: For highwaymen, Sl5; rob-
bers, $40; footpads, 80; pickpockets,
500; shop-lifters, $500; panel thieves,
$50 burglars, $500; confidence men,
$1,000; garroters, $50; till-tappers,
$25; counter-hoppers, $12; hotel
thieves, Sc train robbers, $1,000. The
Professor also proposed to show clerks
the way to rob their employers and
square it up ON their books.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
A Plea for the HOuSe.DOg.

A correspondent of the Maine Far
ner speaks these good words for the
house-dog: "What Woodworking far
mer, on returning at night to rest his
weary limbs, does not feel that he is
more safe from burglars, and his stock,
fowls and orchards more secure from
thieves and midnight providers, both
two and four-legged, if he has good,
faithful dog about his premises? What
good housewife-and all such prefer
leaving their hard days work on the
clothes-line during the dews of night
does not feel that her clothes are more
safe if Bose is in the yard? When the
little ones are off berrying, fishing, or
wandering in the woods, what parent
does not feel less anxious if Bose is with
them? When you are absent from
home overnight, do you not feel that
home is more secure ii Bose guards the
premises-and who greets your return
with more cheerful welcome than he ?
From the earliest period of history the
dog has been the faithful companion of
man, and is the only species of the
brute creation that will forsake its own
species and follow him. A dog may be
taught to be useful in many ways, even
to the saving of human life. You can
easily learn dog to go into the water
and bring out stick, your hat or coat,
and by filling suit of your boys
clothes with straw, and throwing it into
the river, your dog will bring it out /;
and if your little boy should accident
ally fall into the water, Bose would
soon safely land him on the shore.