The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-30

y few more weeks anu we Will AdNC
completed the L. s. laws. In the
mean time we shall issue supplement
each week until they are completed.
Our readers will therefore get more
reading matter than they bargained
for.
Portland buyers are paying about
81 So Z 100 for round lots. San.Fran
cisco shows 81 35g1 %. The figure
here has not changed, and nobody
seems anxious to buy at any price.
\ proposition was before the last
meeting OF the City Council to allow
Jos Teal to build a wharf boat at the
foot of Broadalbin street, in the Will
lamette river, Teal to pay into the city
treasury $40 annually tor such priv
ile@e, the time or extent of such priv
ilege being limited to five years.
!. Is. Roberts, day or two since,
sold fraction over Isl acres of land.
situated about eleven miles south of
this city, at $50 per acre, the larger
portion being prairie, the balance tim
Der. Mr.. Roberts doesn't intend
quitting farming, as he has nearly six
/ hundred acres OF Just as good land adj
! joining the portion sold.
There are no indications, so far as
| we can see, that wheat will advance in
| price from present rates before Janu-
! arv. if it does then. nor do we believe
| that it will get much lower in price.
| While we are still inclined to the belief
that there viii be an advance in price
at the commencement of the new year.
yet we have no hopes that prices will
approximate the figures paid here last
! season.
Linn County Circuit Court last week
finished up business by sending five
persons to be boarded. clothed, etc.
by the State Mt the penitentiary at
Salem. They We're taken to Salem on
Saturday and delivered over to the
Superintendent Of the hotel de cross
bars. Their names We're: W. S.
Wilson. six months. eXtorting money;
Ira Cutting, six months. same offense:
George Barney, three years. obtaining
money under false pretense; J. w.
Fairehild, two years, larceny; Frank
Jppi Tndian), one year, larceny.
y team belonging TO a Monmouth
@r
"Wednesday. Running down First st
to Broadalbin they turned down that
street. making elegant time until they
reached the railroad switch, where the
hack was upset, the pole broken, one
wheel caved in, and the vehicle other
wise damaged. The horses went n:
far as Cheadle's warehouse when ONT
of them fell. and both We're captured
\ goat and sheep were in the hack un
Til it. was upset-both escaped Will
apparently little injury. The animal!
were considerably cut and bruised
Damage to hack, about $40.
The City Council on Tuesday nigh
let the contract for digging ditcl
from the corner of Third and Bake
streets down the latter street to Rail
road street, to Mr.. A. 3. Morris, a
&c per yard, Morris to have th'
privilege Of the dirt. The ditch viii
be three feet on the bottom. Th
Council also auth5rized the Committee
on Streets to contract with any re
sponsible parties who would agree t
fill up the gulch across First am
Montgomery streets, receiving 500
from the city and trusting to citizen
interested to make up the balance
We suppose the property-holders in
terested will make up the balanc
necessary to complete the work. Thi
ditch filled up will save the city tn
f expense OF q new bridge across il
which would cost some $3.50.
t A DRUNKEN BRAwL.-On Tuesda