The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
General News.

WSSs OAG ~ IOOh ~ ttiiftItttllltlN LIcilI
the Circnft Court to get her in.
a Chicago "pcrsoual" announces
that solve Logan's husband is At,
the Sherman House" 1t must be
very gratifying to man to be an
nounced IN that way.
An ex-confederate General
O'Neal, who served under Stone
wall Jackson, is shoveling dirt OH
the Chicago, Burlington and (luin-
cy railway tor 81 day.
An Indiana clergyman sued
newspaper aud dropped dead within
week. The Detroit free I3.'C&s
says these fellows will learn some
thing by and by.
The Democratic State Committee
of New Hampshire shave decided
to hold a Convention for tie nom
ination of Governor, i'll Concord,
January 5th.
The libel suit of Judge McCue.
of Brooklin, agarst the New York
Tribune has been withdrawn,
plaintiffs counsel saying that the
Tribune has made a tuH retraetion.
a Boston dispatch of November
18th says: Thirty-tour employees
of the Boston Custom House VIII
be discharged to-day III accordance
with Collector Simmou's plan ofre-
trenchment.
Michael Haves, the PRINCIPAL wit
ness for the Government in the safe
burglary case how being tried at
Washington, was arrested for per-
jury on the 18th inst, on TIE oath
OF Whitley, ore Of the defendants.
Gov. Potts, of Montana, is like
Moses, ofSouth Carolina. i!e is not
at all lindictiyc, and parlois ont
about two thirds OF the persons put
i'll the penitentiaIy.
The Flathead Indians are getting
too "cussed'' for the EIis~oula coun-
ty people to tolerate mucll longer.
Their thefts and depredatiolS, az
cording to the local paper and tier
good authority, continue from week
to week.
Mr.. James y. Karr, of Chehalis
county, w. T., is elected Represen-
tative from Chehalis and Pacific.
lie had three competitors and dis
tanced the field.
A herd Of 200 bufaloes stam-
pcded all the pack animals belong
ing to a company OF the Eighth
Cavalry, down in Colorado not long
ago. 1t took two honrs TO secure
the pack mules and restore order i'll
the column.
J. L. Briggs, OF Pekin, Ill, and
George b. Hickman, of Wcstches-
ter, Pa, recently made the trip from
Colorado Springs to the top of
Pixies Peak and back in twelve
hours. The distance between the
two points is thilty-tiye miles.
a. o. Wood, was run over by a
loaded wagon in Clickitat valley,
which crushed his breast badly.
There are hopes, however, that the
young man will recover. The wag-
on had on two 10 feet sticks OF tim
: Der and cord of wood at TIE time.
The st. Louis Times "scooped"
up all ofits contemporaries i'll fiding
out that ga new Territory, compos-
ed of Colorado, south of the Divide,
and part of northern New Mexico,
is talked of as not improbable.
Northern Colorado will then absorb
Wyoming, and become q State.
Judge Cutting, in disclarging a
couple of ill-lookFng prisoners at
Ellsworth, just tried and acquitted
10y the jury of charge of stealing
sheep, tersely said: Ioung men,
1 should advise you to go home and
steal no more sheep.
\ gentleman sat down at a table
in an Oshkosh restaurant the other
day and called for ''bill OF rar-
ticulars.'' % 'sBrooklyn, by thunder''
roared the by-standers i'll gust of
moral Indignation, as they shot him
through the doorway with the We
locity of a remington ritieball.
A large piano mauufactory in
New Haven has been fitted ont
with novel system of fire apara-
tus. neyery twelve feet square
throughout the building is projec-
ting water-spout with the end SOL
dered up. In case of fire it is ex-
pected that the solder will be mel
ted and thus flood of water let
on.
Mr.. w. BIackmore, OF England,
who has been down the Kansas Pa
cific, on a grand hunt is back again.
He estimates the annual slaughter
of buffalo on the Plains, at from
100000 to 1900, 900. While
we are inclined to think this esti-
mate exaggerated, there is no doubt
that for two or three years past,
the destruction of buffalo has been
immense. Mr. BIaekmore is of the
opinion that there should be strict
laws for the preservation OF this no.
ble game.
The Denver Neecs has this anec-
.dote of the Governor elect of the old
Bay State: "Gaston, Democratic
Governor elect of Massachusetts, is
an luck, not only politically, as the
returns attest, but financially. Gov.
CASTOR. who visited the Cherry
creek settlement in early tinesg to-
nyathar with the Rev. Mr.. Potter,