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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
A Widnw,s Witness

It was told of old that the cackle of
a goose once saved Rome. It is now
related that a swallow won suit in
court away down in Texas. A poor
widow and her daughter had suit for
damages before a court in Houston.
The counsel for the plaintiff introduced
into his pleading the fable of the swal-
low that built her nest and reared her
young under the caves of the temple of
justice. The lawyer enlarged upon the
swallows trust in the protection of her
home the place afforded, and very aptly
made the application to the case before
the court. When the counsel was about
finishing his illustration swallow actu-
ally few into the room and alighted
upon the Judges desk. Itthen hopped
away and found rest for the sole of its
foot on the railing of the jury-box. In
it's circuit cf the courtroom it halted
for awhile on pile of law books, then
lowered moment over the heads of the
plaintiffs, and few out of the window
and away. The counsel concluded by
saying "Behold the Witness" and as
the witness could not be called back by
the opposing counsel, the case wat
given to the jury pretty much as the
swallow left it. The jury could not ig
more the birds evidence. and gave {
verdict for the widow. The story is
little birdy, but not in the least fishy
If it was preconcerted plan of the law
yer it was very happily arranged ant
nicely carried out, and deserves plac'
among court reports and curious
pleadinQs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

Mr.. CHARLES O'CoNoR and Mr.. Rev
erdy johnson have published letters in
which opposing views are taken as to
the Presidents powers in the matter of
the recognition of State governments.
Mr.. johnson took the ground that the
Presidents judgment in such case is
final; that though the President made
sad mistake in his first recognition of
Kellogg, having done so, the act was
irrevocable. Mr.. O'Conor claims that
when the President had discovered his
mistake he had the power, and it was
his duty, to recall the first action and
make such new decision as full informa-
ton of all the facts warranted.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
The Donkey.

hav watched the donkey with CRATE
deal ov pashunt anxiety.
They are about three foot high, and
sumthing like three foot six inches.
lengthways.
They hav normal appetight, anGk
will eat all the time, and more too.
They amt partiklaF about their vlttIe5,.
and viii try hard to swallo horse shu,
but seldum suckceed in doing it.
They are mostly sv a grizzly gray
euler, and eat too mutch to ever git
phatt.
The donkey il one ov natur's jokes, q.
sort ov pun, which / never could sees
the point to.
They are az sett in their ways az s>
post, and are the only live thing that 1xz
too mutch for a klub.
They will stand more pounding thans
a sheaf ov wet oats without shelling ont.
hav seen them hitehed up to a go.
kart, right away after breakfast, and
stay thare pashuntlY until sunset.
They are not hansum TO behold but.
az cluss study, are az full ov interest
az a mile stone with the letterings alE
worn off.
The donkey haz two ears and only,
one tale, and their ears stand in the
same relashun to tho rest ov their bod
dys that a steeple duz to a church.
Their tales don't seem tn be emmy use
only to frisk, and the whole kritter,.
from beginning to end, IL about az un--
called for in this climate az a PAIR ove
twin mud-tuit}es or dozen ov snaiks
eggs.
kant say that I hate the donkey, but
II thare want but one In America, and
that one waz stuffed, and belonged to-
Barnum, should be the last man to.
shed tears over the result.
1n6 0OnkGv IL a sober and v,oiS&o~io,,c.
cuss.
L luv all the dun kritters. I Inv to,
ponder over them. I hav watched for
hours the vagrant pissmire, the spotted
tud and the vivacious hornet, and kan,
see in them what / never could see in,
man. their needle allwuss points to the,
north pole.
Farewell, yu sad and thinking kritter :.
/ may never again write yure memoirs.
but whether / do or don't. I shall ali--
| wuss respeckt yu az a donkey, and
| that's all.
/ forgot to state, in the hurry oy the
moment, that donkey will liv forever,
or thereabouts, and have the same in
delible kast ov kountenance to the last.
Adiew, yu craven image; yu soli6l
one, adiew Josh Billings.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
Steam on Canals.

The premium of 800, 900 offered by
the State of New York for the inventioh
of some method by which canals may be
successfully and economically navigated
by st"am power, was a good invest
ment. What is known as the Baxter
boat has now complied with all the
conditions required for securing the
award, and it is evident that steam is to
take the place of horsepower on all
important canals. A steamer recently
reached Buffalo from New York in six
days and seventeen hours. Thirteen of
these steamers are now launched, and
ten others will be constructed at once,
making twenty three to ply on the Erie
canal. With their towing capacity this
will equal a great many horse boats,
and must speedily result in the growth
of grass upon the tow-path. The time
is near when noe a morse boat will De
used on the Erie canal. This is not
only an important result in consequence
of the time saved, but its greatest ben
eft arises from the fact that it will ma
terially reduce freight rates. With the
tolls on the Erie canal placed at reason
able and just figures, every farmer in
the West would derive some perceptible
benefit from this new method of canal
transportation. With the encouraging
results attending the use of steam on
the Erie canal, there is little reason to
doubt the enlargement of the Wabash
and Erie canal, and it's extension to st.
Louis. It is not possible to conceive
the vast Importance of such a line OF
transportation to the people of the West,
insuring, as it would, the rapid and
cheap transportation of their surplus
products to the seaboard.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
A Relic of Daniel Boone.

A correspondent of the Nashville
Union and american writes from
Washington county. Tenn: Near Mr..
Faw's farm, on the lands of S. E. Ed
wards, is the famous Boone tree which
contains the earliest record of civiliza-
ton in Tennessee. It stands on the
northwestern slope of hill which rises
up from Sinking creek, near the
Blountsville and Jonesboro stage road.
The hill is thickly set with beech, ma
pie and oak, and the whole earth is
rami6ed with gnarled roots, which
cover the surface like an inextricable
mat. The dense woods, the roar of the
little creek as it leaps in cascades over
the tinted limestone, and the deep
gloom of the forest gave wildness to
the surrounding not unlike what one
may imagine it was ia years ago,
resting his rifle against the tree, carved
in indelible characters the result OF
the days work in this way
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

GHARP-EDaED.- good story is told
of Fenimore Cooper, who rather prided
himself on certain native wine manu-
factured from his own grapes. One day,
when he was dining with witty guest,
Cooper poured out a glass of wine, and
looking at it with pride, remarked,
s. " Now. Nov I call this good. honest est wine; ne,
It is honest wine-poor, but honest. y
No response from Mr.. Cooper.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

CHEERFUL.-Ttaly has an annual def
cit which has never been less than
200, ,0O0, ,000f. a public debt which has
increased in thirteen years from 2, 439.
000,OO0f. TO 9,757, ,OOO, ,OOOf. forced
paper currency of $40, ,O0O, 00Of., to-
gether with an entire disappearance of
gold and silver; exchange ranging be-
tween and 16 per cent, and at times
even 20 per cent. against the country.
and imports to large amount in excess
of the value of italian productions ex-
ported,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

Nor long since, at Sunday school, the
teacher, after trying hard to impress
on the minds Of class of small boys
the sin of Sabbath breaking. asked, I" Is
swered =" You bet your boots it is !''
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

CONVENTION OF THE HUMOROUS Para.
GRAPHIsrs The New York CONNER
caGl says : A convention of the humor-
Gus paragraphists of the country ia
talked of, each delegate, of course, to
nominate and elect himself What a
crowd there will be The Brooklyn
argus, Boston Post, Richmond En-
quirer, Detroit Free Press, Louisville
Courier Journal, ST. Louis Globe, and
Danbury Neaos will all be expected.
We beg to suggest either the Bay of
Fun-dy or Laugh-aryette as a proper
point for the meeting. And why not
call the assembled wits the National
Board of Fun-der-writers /?
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
HOW THE BULLS WENT DOWN MAN.
HAITIAN IONVN, OCT. 4, 1874.
Bx Joux vAScE CT

JOHN VANCE CHENEY.
Tbs records of time are full
of the wonGrous, thunderous bull
a hero in harness the boast of the ring,
He's sometimes god, and often king
Othe bull,
The beToVing bull
The Golden Bull, the bulls Of Bashan,
Bulls of the Pope and the Irish naIionp
Bulls of sidereal calculation,
Bulls of every stall and station,
Bulls on Jewish affairs slain,
Bulls of the mountain and bulls OF the PLAIN.
Jupiter's self turned ball again;
The runiuAnt race since adams Iait
The whole cud-kind-what are they all
To the Texan horde
That beloved and bored
As they drove down
Manhattan town
How the frisky brutes made merry
From Central Park 10 Hamilton Ferry;
livery alley and every street
Cleared and SECURED by their cloYen feet
Snoring and snoring, ranting and roaring,
Buttthg and boring, gashing and goring-
How they leaped from line to line!
Topping and lfnbing, tossing and trimming
The lace and the linen of men and women,
Over and under, and into the air,
Here and there and everywhere
The believing bulls.
The police marched out, and the boys in blue,
Doctors of drugs and divinity, too
But what could their bludgeons and sabers do:
The bullets and balls of the buttoned crew?
They aimed At the bulls and manned the men;
They fired and loaded, and fired again,
But the shot rolled of like drops of rain
From the mailed boots of the Texan plain.
The bull 81 was abroad"
And life fraud,
And he drove like demon down
ManhRttan town.
Bos, bowls, bowl, bowen,
Gemini, Jerusalem
How Taurus stamped IN his shaggy gles
AS the bovine swept to his bloody spree,
Hoofs and hide to his reYelryl
Not a second 70 breathe, for he shook his name.
And oh how the bulls buckled to it again
Heap on heap, ten at leap,
Wide and deep, ten at sweep
Such sport the powers meier before go
Since the heel of the heifer kicked over Chicago!
How many and many maid
Prayed then that never before had prayedi
How many man ana many maiden
Caught their drst glimpse of the distant Alden
If they'd fastened horns the Judgment day,
Put antlers on Hades, and brought it to bay,
There couldn't have been worse dismay
Than followed the people all the way
When the world was wild and the sky wa
lowery,
And the Texan bulls went down the Bowery!
o, the bulls
The terrible bulls
The bison-hull and the buffalo,
The bulls above and the bulls below
But the lords of the Texan plain,
When shall We their like again
From Frisco round TO the Bay of Fuudy,
From sea to sea, from pole to pole,
As long as there's fear in the human soul,
II VIII be told how there Sunday
Four-footed disaster,
Fiercer and fercer, faster and faster,
snorting and snoring. ranting and roaring,
Eutting and boring, gashing and goring-
How the bulls went down
Manhattan town!
-Netr York EUeniHg PuNt.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

At that time he was 26 years of age,
and doubtless was more than 100 miles
from any human habitation, relying
alone upon his own brave heart, strong
arm and trusty rifle. The tree is just
two feet in diameter and leans about
three degrees from perpendicularity.
1t has been greatly defaced by seekers
after immortality, who have inscribed
heir names, otherwise unknown, all
over it, for ten feet, or nearly SO, above
the surface of the ground. For several
hundred yards southwest, and imme-
diately around the tree, is large num-
Der of mounds, with corresponding de-
pressions, which have led many to be-
lieve that it was originally mining
region of the Indians, and some have
been led to think that beds of pure sill
yer, as rich as those of Potosi, might
be found by digging. But am satisfied
that the mounds have been produced
by uprooted trees, whose roots decaying
have left the cherty beds high above the
general surface
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

TIE best way for a man to acquire a
fne flow of language is to stub his toe
against raised brick.
Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-14
Free Marriages In Switzerland.

In Switzerland, asin Germany and some
other parts of Europe. there has lately been a
revision of the law of marriage. Bv the new
Helvetian constitution it is prescribed that no
impediment whatever, founded on religious con-
siderations, or on supposed want of means. is to
be put in the way OF those "about to marry u
and it is expressly ordered that no government
tax or fee shall be exacted; that the wife shall
have share in her husbands settlement-rights
in his parish and canton. that, adopting the
spirit and practice of the law in Scotland, mar
rage shall Legitimate children born before we'd
lock; and that any marriage contracted by Swiss
persons anywhere shall be legally recognizable.
if it be valid according to the hr loci, or law of
the place. Some of he cantonal governments
of Switzerland have hitherto refused to recc-
gnize any such marriages when celebrated with
out previous sanction from the authorities of at
least the husbands canton, others have exacted
caution-money from these who hod no "real'
property, and continue to exact it even since
the constitution passed; and few have again
Objected to acknowledge mixed marrisges ex-
cept under special ecclesiastical sanction.
Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-14
UIflIU.N I--.-'. .
A SIX eIeton in the Beecher Closet,

One skeleton in the Beecher closet has at last
been fairly forced to the light, and certainly Il
is grisly enough 10 explain some Of the mysteri.
features of Mr.. Beecher's conduct. One Of his
sisters appears in the light ola convert to free
love doctrines, a devotee Of Mrs. Woodhulrs an
absolute believer in that persons stories against
her brother, arr Utterly resolved 10 force him
10 further the cause by confessinel DR.. Edward
Beecher's letter to her on the subject is publish
Cd, and il makes as sickeniga revelation na has
been seen for.mauy day.
1t has long been limited that the warfare on
MIR. Beecher had its origin in the anger of a
free.lover wing of the woman suffrage party in
New York; but few really believed that his own
sitter could be tho instrument specially chosen
for his torture. The woman seems TO have really
supposed that the pastor Of Plymouth Church
was guilty Of criminal intimacy with one of his
aii.hioaers, that he could confess 10 her before
The congregation in some theatrical fashion in
which Rshe had devised a prominent role for
herself, and that then he could 60 on preaching
az usual OF course all this horrible stuff amounts
to nothing as proof on either side; but it does
suggest the propriety Of suspendinR further in
quiries into alleged insanity in the Tilton family
Moon struck madness in the Beecher family
would be better present subject of invesliga-
TONY y. Tribune, IL.
Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-14

d OBERT HADDOCk, Plastering and Calcin-
HI ing. s. d. Cor. 9Th and.lShipleytSts. Resid
ence. 6l0 W, Ninth streeI, ssa. tsapr2d3m
Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-14

WnMIS"ToN k Asn RI FADING RAJ
On and after Tuerday. May 26th 1874. trains
Will run OVER MAIN LINE AND READING
BRANCH as follows:
going Northward. Going Southward.
PPohi9' No ); NS.1. No. No. No, 8.
lb As 6 80 WilmipRtou 3 10 9 - T so
6o3 50 z "a Chadd's 70 I'd, y rs 219 ~
59955 1893 s % Goatssyiils. % IDS s 81
s0! IL Springfield 3 % 1206 8 OF
s:4 t6 9 Al BirdaborO "a II "a 4 81
'U s 80 10 Is Reading, 4 20 IL 20 100
CONNECTIONS
AT Wilmington with trains on Phila delphis.
HWtil9ington and Baltimore and Del. RAILROADS ai
Shadds Ford with trains on Philadelphia and
baltimore Central R. T.. and at Coatesyille with
trains on Phila; and Reading. Lebanon Valley.
Berks County Railroad.
SUNDAY TRAIN.
On and after Sunday, June u, 1874 a Sunday
train will run rs follows
6oing North-Leave Wilmington at 30, D. H.
arrive at Reading. z 81. u. m.
doing Sou.h-Leave Reading, 7 10. a, n,: ar
rive at Wilmington, IL II. a. IN
~, both trains connect with the P. & B. c. R. X. at
may 70 Il. COLLINNS. GenI Supt,
The New York herald., 1874-08-09

A GENTLEMAN DESIRES NEAT SMALL HALL ROOM
"a VIII board, between Fourth and seventh
ara tourfeenin and thirty fourth Streets not toexceod
~ address PERMANENT, Herald ofrca "
The New York herald., 1874-08-09

T NORTHPoRT-CoUNTR BOARD CAN BE HAD
II at a farm house, within two hours ride OF the civ
and one mile from sound terms reasonable, Address
ISAAC b. ARTHUR, Newport L. l.
The New York herald., 1874-08-09

HANDSOMELY FURNISHED APARTMENTS WITH
all city accommodations II minutes from foot Of
young men; high ground, &c. Address Mrs c. II.
APPLETON, kearney avenue, near Bergen avenue, Jer
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10

The PREMIUM LIsr.-The publica-
ton of the premium list and Mr.. Bay
ards address has necessarily crowded
out great deal Of interesting matter
which we would have otherwise pub
lished. It has also obliged US to con-
dense the election returns much more
than we would have done.
We refer our readers to this Premium
List as the best answer that can be
made to a rather derogatory letter
which appeared in the Wilmington Ga
zette last week in reference to the fair.
Our Exhibition may not have been quite
as extensive as the Maryland State Fair
or the Cincinnati Exposition, but this
was our 6rst year. and that letter con-
tanned the first complaint that has come
to the ears Of any Of US who we're in
tercsted in the exhibition. Perhaps if
all the subscribers to the capital stock
bad paid their subscriptions earlier in
the summer, without waiting for the
fair to prove q success. the committee
would have felt freer and the prepara-
tions could have been completed sooner.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10
ROBERT D. RATLEDGE.
THOMAS LAVENDER.
ROBT. @. WHITTOCK.
BENZ. ARMSTRONG.
JAMES j. BROWN.
&. W. BLIZZARD.
WILLIAM WOOD.

The 9Th exposition held at Cincin-
natl closed on Saturday night 1t had
been open for twenty-eight days. dur
ing which time it was visited by $751;
900 people. The receipts, not includ-
ing those from the sale Of privileges,
were 500, 900.
Mahnoud Ter6e, lieute nant in the
Turkish army. stationed at Providence.
r. l., as inspector of the arms made
for Turkey by the Providence Tool
Company, committed suicide on Mon
day. He had for some time been suf-
fering from dissipation,
The trial Of Samuel w. Mcdonald
for the murder of Berry Amos began
at Towsontown. in Baltimore county,
Md. on Monday
A letter from Havana, dated Septem-
Der 80. gives report that the insur-
gents had occupied Remedies for twenty
four hours.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10

fortunes 10 more tractable and congenial
company, but We are not prepared to
believe. without indisputable evidence.
that there can be young men, who have
not been brought up under the influence
Of Republican fathers, who are SO lost to
self respect. as to deliberately place
themselves in company with negroes,
politically and socially. much less can
we believe that any young man Of q
properly balanced mind, who has grown
to manhood under the fostering care Of
o Democratic father, could possibly be-
come Republican. If there are any
such, their room is preferable to their
company and the party they 60 to gains
nothing. but rather loses. by the &C.
QUESTION.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10

WHENCE THE INFORMATION ?-The
Dover Sentinel calls into question the
fact, which We stated last week, that
many young men, the sons Of Republi-
cans, are taking their stand on the side
Of the Democracy, and asks whence
the information ?" Our answer is, we
spoke frem personal knorledge. We
know, personally, young men. and a
goodly number Of them too. whose faith
ers have been for years, and are now,
Republicans, who declare themselvels,
openly, Democrats. More than that.
we know young men whose older BROTH
ers are Republicans but they themselves.
disgusted with the degrading, ,unscrupu-
lous conduct of the Radicals, have
"taken their stand on the side of Demo-
cracy" and their own race. Can the
"Esquire" tell US whether be knows .
single individual Of 1.-THE numbers of
both young and older men" Of whom
be hears, ..who have heretofore sup
ported the Democracy, but who now
say they shall vote no longer for it?"
he may be able to name some older
ones, for there are a good many disap-
pointed Office seekers in Kent county,
and few Of them may have become
tired Of party which has SO persistent
" refused to recognise their brilliant
talents. and gone to seek their political
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10

INDEpENDENr (O CANDIDArE.--A man
named John H. Hendrickson, living in
East Dover, Kent, Co., has published
card in the Republican paper Of that
town announcing himself as an indepen-
dent candidate for sheriff, and declaring
himself opposed to various things, the
sum and substance of which is. that be is
opposed to the regular candidate for
sheriff, as he wants the position himself
he. perhaps. is one Of the Democrats
that the Sentinel means who have gone
over to the Republicans. :.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10

SENATOR BAYARD's ADDRESS.
publish on our first page this week one
half Of the excellent address delivered
by Hon. T. f. Bayard at the opening
Of our recent Agricultural fair.
We could not publish it entire this
week. without too seriously interfering
with other matters and thought it best
to divide it into two equal portions.
We will publish the remainder next
week.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-10
MARIE D.

On the 9Th inst, at the residence Of the
brides parenis, by Rev. DR.. Patton, G. W.
Barnett, Esq Junior Editor of the Canton
Press, Missouri, and Miss Maggie W. Van
hekle, of New Castle county, Delaware.
Accompanying the above "notice" was a
generous slice of bridal cake, and also a sub
stantial token of the bard money Democracy
of the groom, for which we returp our most
cordial thanks. The joyous couple have Onr
very best wishes for long and prosperous
life Of unbroken happiness.