The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-04-04
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New Caledonia in small boat, and
were aaoat three days when they
were picked up by a British sailing
vessel and brought to an Australian
port. Rochefort has telegraphed
to Paris for funds. He intends to
visit the United States and lecture
in New York and other American,
cities before his return to Europey
when he will probably take up his
residence in Brussels
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan, has
introduced bill to provide that
all parties claiming lands in the
State Of Oregon must file their
claims within eighteen months after
the passage of the act, except in
cases OF minors, who shall have
eighteen months after their major
ity, and if they shall not then have
filed they shall forfeit their rights.
A few days ago, near Detroit,
Mich, four boys went hunting, when
two Of them, John Falvy, aged fiji.
teen years, and Richard McEyerly,
sixteen years, quaneled, they had a
tussel about a gun, when the former
shot McEverly dead. The boys
breast was tearfulIy torn by the
shot, which was discharged at close
range.
A Havana letter says: The in
cendiary torch is making great hay.
oc in the sugar plantations. The
Spaniards say the authors are insur-
gents. The destruction Of property
is fearful, and in the most fertile
tract Of the sugar-growing country,
On the 9Th Of March the villages
of Jaguayaben and Remedier and
the whole surrounding country were
Illuminated by the burning cane
fields. At the plantation of Maria
about three hundred acres OF sugar
cane were destroyed, eighty acres
Of which had been cut and ready
for the mill. Volunteers have been
sent out in search Of incendiaries,
and several other detachments have
been distributed among other estates
for their protection.
The Catholic Archbishop, Pur.
cell, has lately given expression to
his views on the temperance ques.
ton of the day. In Drief, he iucul.
Gates moderation, and although he
favors total abstinence forthose who
cannot refrain from drinking too
much when they drink any, he still
the existence Of certain
under which reason.
able indulgence may be not only
proper, but beneficial. He consid.
srs licensing better than prohibition;
Ind the shutting up by law Of vile
where bad liquor is sold
S, in his opinion, the best remedy
or the great evil, whose effects are
% generally deplored.
The New York SIN, referring to
Joe Daniels" owners acceptance
i Treats challenge to run "Thaa.
against any horse in Che
World, four.mile heats, for $4,000,
ays this looks a little like a job to
apture the green ones. Horsemen
now "Joe Daniels'' can beat
Stevens" and if the race is run
nc Of three tricks will be re-
orted TO to fleece the uninitiated.
'irSt, it "Thad Stevens" is the "a.
orite he will be beaten; secondly,
'"Joe Daniels" after winning the
rst heat, is the tayorite at long
dds, his owner and friends caM
op the cut by making what horse.
zen call a "double cross" third,
'anielS can get a sporting man not
nown in California to bet heavily
yainst his horse, in which cas-
aniels will profit by just as many
ollars as bis outside friend is oil.
wed to put up, and the trick will
beyond detection
The Catholic Archbishop Of Co
gne was arrested at Berlin, Prpt,
!, on the Slst rlt., for violation ot
a aooloc;aet;oAf IAha tSH '@''