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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

Rstu kIOktU w SttNA'" UtunsF b0s'
ing contributed in money and labor
the sum equal To S3. 200 are of the
opinion, tlat "a Wsla Walla is
largely interested IN having q good
wagon road across the meuntabR,
that citizens there shtuld cnldrimite
at least their share, and, in further.
aee OF this, Mr. Woodward, q
pnmilent citizen Of Union county
las been selected to call npon the
business nen ofWa'ls Walla forsib-
rcription4.
A man, calling himself w. J..
Mayiield, and Ilsiliug from siedaliA,
Hettis county, 'issohri, is now nI,.
der arrest at Las Anmas, Colorado,
fur killing Que Joseph Means, alo
from Missouri, on the urgstory
river, some three weeks ago. The
murderer declares that Means was
one ot'a party of three who killed
a kilsn,an Of his, John Williamson,
iu Henry county, Missouri, in 1871
and the local papers there confirm
his stoly, although, on the other
hand, they don't give May6eld a
very good character.
Mr.. HALEY, Delegate in Congress,
writes to Jo. Pinkhsm, U. s. Mar
rhal of Idaho, that the penltentlary
bill has passed the Senate in the
form it PASSED the House. This
leaves the Territory to pay one dol
lar per day to the United States
for keeping territOris' prisoners, as
the whole expense, the same as
heretofore.
D,J. Martin, Chairman OF the
Democratic Territorial Central
Committee, hss i>Sue'l . call for .
Territorial Democratic Convention, |
TO meet at Colorado Springs on
Thursday, July 2Sd, to nominate a
for Delegate to Congress.
y man named Foulker, accom-.
'anied by two companions, left Del
NOrte in April on . prospecting
our in Arizona, since which time
10 tidings have been received from
hem. Died Ia the hunt for gold, /
will probably be their epitaph. I
Salt Lake valley received q shak.
ng up from an earthquake last
friday evening. There were sew
raj vibrations, the sensation lasting
together about ten seconds At
Alta and Granite the shock was
'receeded by . rumbliug noise.
D. g. Eeatsy, from the Puyallup
eservation, says they have been
aving q temperance revival at that
lace, some two hundred having
igned the pledge.
The Lovett PsGeOck is at the
Ihart in Seattle lOadins with coal
rom the Renton mines, for San
francisco. She will carry between
,nr and five hundred tons. d
The festive potato bug hRs made
is appearance st Trinidad. ii
A Greeley, Colorado, man has
ID $4,000 Cabbages this eeason.
Mr.. v. Devinny, who resides
bout three miles west Of Denver, '
Ipects to pick seven thonsand
laEts of strawberries this season.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

Lizzie Van Etsen, who works IN
the weaving room II the WOOlsn
RaOtOSyIAt Salem, goe her hand
janlned m the loom In sOule way
lashsatOPaayi infictiug - paipful
but NOT dangerous wound.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

1ttS NJ ~
are sold
seveuty-fve thousand dollars is
appropriated ~ col.tiDuethe surveys
of the Yellowstone, under Prof.
Hayden.
II will cost Silver City $50 per
month to have an Episcopal minis
ter, and they are trying 70 raise that
amount.
A horse with two heals is tie
latest Idaho sensation. Newell, OF
the Walla Wa Ia Statesman, start
ed the Sellsathhl. tfsE
One hundred and ehree car loads
Of freight passed over the eastern
section Of the Northern Pacific.
for Mauitoba, recently
Editor Brown, OF Seattle, is OPP
posed To any member Of the COM
mittiee OF I'wenty-one receiving
nominations for office in the coming
city election.
The industrious habits of the
grasshopper will preclude the epeces.
sity Of much toll Oh part Of the far
mers in harvesting their grain fields
this year.
One Bartholomew went 60 a
school house near Seattle, and thence
eloped with one Of the school girls.
It is supposed that they have gone
Eastward.
Union county gets about $1,000
oftbe irreducibIe school fund this
year.
The La Grsnde Sentinel, of June
9th, says it showed on Tuesday OF
last week At Orc Dell.
Joseph t'ornoyer, son Of Major
Cornoyer, Agent for the Umatilla
Indians, aged about 20 years, died
. few days since at the residence Of
bis father on the reservation.
The "Duke of Oregon" d fine
thoroughbred bull, owned by Jo-
seph Shambaugh, Of La GFande,
died the other day, altsran illness
Of several months. The animal |
was worth $500 or over. |
The salem RecOrd 'learns that
Capt. Gep. w. Belt, OF the College |
Club, has suffered terribly with his
wounded leg, 1t is thought, how
ever, that the limb can be saved, |
but he will probably never fully
recover from the effects of the inju-
~.
Captain Whitehill, administrator,
realized $270 so from the proceeds
OF L. "A. Guitars personal effects, at
w. T., on last Saturday.
Among the items disposed Of was
the gun with which Mr. Guitar
shot the hog on San Juan Island
lif58, &kicb cont tibptsd ID much
toward precipitating the San Juan
''o'4Sfel eltlIS[I ysIl(lT
Says tie Beliihghah Bay Nal:
'Every trip the ship Germania
makes to San Francisco from this
place, shehakSsJwithber 4 lot Idf
tars This week, Mr.. Baxter put
o6 board 1900 pounds Of. beaver /
'kins, 1000 mink skins, together !
Vith q lot Of the smaller varieties.
The owyhee s4yGqslqellehs, of q II
'ecent date, in speaking Ofa windy 4
lay at Silver City, says; "The .
Eind tore through the streets and
through the houses, ffeighted down !
With heapsof dust, dry goods boxes,
,ranite boulders, COFdwOod, old
lats, ,yelping dogs, and horseshoe
rails. 1t was fearful" 'sa =
A drove Of sheep belonging to !
'lessers. Andrew Chambers and Q
samuel Coulter, ana pa&nrihg at :
be farm Of Mr., joseph Deayes, on 7
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Pacific slopers,

Immigrants are arrlvlngin numb
ers at Walla WalIa.
Walls Walla'sSunday ordinance
still hangs fire in her Common
Council.
A general court martial was in
session at Fort Wala Wal'a Inst
week.
The MethNiists of Boise propose
to erect a 1000 brick church build.
ing.
BoiFe City raised Sis for the
Louisiana sufferers.
Alta Conum arrangements have
been made for a general celebration
on the Fourth.
The people Of Pnyallup will have
picnic celebration on the Fourth,
and good time.
The contract for carrying the
mail between Olympia and Tenino
has been let TO George Coggin.
The Fourth will be celebrated at
Oak Harbor, Wildly Island, by q
picnic, which there will be a horse
race
Capt. Doane, Of Olympia, writes
very encouraging news from Dease
Creek, B. G.. His prospecting party |
has been very successful.
The Corvallis Gazette has been |
designated by Governor Grover as
the litigsnt paper Of Benton coun- |
".
Machinery for small steamer to
ply on the Yaquina river, has been
sent across the mountains, from Cor. |
wallis.
"A new bridge, $50 feet long, is
being built across Little Pudding
river, en- the sOad leading from
Salem 70 SilvesSm.
The logsf,r the bridge across che
Willamette vt Springfield are said
tdbe 10 tie t9ce and will be ready !
ID use inn eew days.
Under the recent apportionnent
ofsChool finds for 1874, Benton
county il ensitIed to $2,425 SO coin
and SAL Is currency.
Dora Cushrnsn, the young man
who assaulted d. Drake on the lat
inas. 1t Corvallis, has had apreIim.
nary exsmin$sion and was bound
ossrAo court ii. Che sum of $4OO.
On Mondas last The Yaquina
stage met With All accident, when
,juss beyond the summit o. the
mountain. The fore axle gave
way, compelling the driver to leave
the vsE6lS by The rcal eide.
The letting Of the mail contract
on the Sound has not yet been an-
RoulO, md If iF believed that II
has not yet been let, but that the
contract will be again put up for I
bids. aQq
Aralgsmepts have been perfect
ed Ecfa Vbutse of leCshtes 10 be de-
livered in Olympia in behalf of the I
railroad. The opening lecture Of 4
tho SOere will b delivered. BY !
Rev. DR.. Lindsey, of Portland,
whose ability as an orator is SO veil I
known. ..f.fts au
aaDLJ Nv. Howard, who is nov
on > professional visit to Yakima 7
City, write the Mon,tameer that !
TIVE nuggets were taken from The {
Discovery claim oniISwauk t'reek !
last week-one weighing $l87 rs, I
the other sSe4 Over $500 was
taken from the claim for the weeks !
Work There were also three other !
Nuggets, amouating to 500, found I
at the mouth otthe creek during the t
time BY other parties. ,.t ,.,, lls9 lll.r I
Tbs Dakota Southern Railroad +
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

4. The public debt statement for
June Shows q reducuOn Of q, ,lsO,.
l97.A sIay 's ai, .s.g
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

The customs receipts as San
Francisco fOt June were S7S7 y22S.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04
ALBANY REGISTER

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his wife in Olympia. He appears
sangniae regarding the richness of
the diggings in TINT region. He
thinks there are some twelve miles
o. the river valley or canyon which
will ray well. Although late IN
reachiug the "Creek be secured q
claim which prospects finely. The
water was beginning To fail at the
time he wrote.
A miereant near Silyerton Is in
tile habit Of firing off his'pistol in
his neighbors' dooryeras and at
their stack, ~ he passes by. A
few days ago he killed o valuable
hog belonging 10 one Of them, out
Of genuine meanuess. He ought to
be dealt with, or made leave the
country.
An Eastern Oregon laper says {:
"Ope day this week several families,
from near Summerville. Grand
Ronde valley, passed. through town
en route fur the Wilamett valley,
They formerly lived there, and had
concluded that they would return
to the 'leek.s, and onions, and Gu
cumbers, aid tlesh.pots Of Egypt"
Last Sunday, . little soD. Of
Joshua Purviue, living one mile
and half west Of Lincoln, in Ma
rion county, wasshoCki"gly injured.
Some visitors had called aud Une OF
them left . horse III charge Of this
little 10Y, but four years Of age
A young man by the name Of J.
A, J. Caste, dropped dead, last
Saturday evening, while engaged in
a game OF base ball, at the Howell
Prairie school house, near Mr..
Greenwood's, in Marion county. 1t
appears that he had struck the ball
and started to run but was caught |
out before reaching the first base.
He walked . few steps towards the
fence and remarked that he did
not feellwell and would have to quit.
He then walked to an old shed
near by and fell. lie never spoke,
and breathed but two or three times
after falling.
Speaking Of the storm which
ragged at Ihndleton last week tie
Tribune says !: It greatly damaged
the growing hay crop on james
Despaine's ranch. The water rose
several inches in an incredibly short
SPACE Of time. Three valuable
brood mares belonging TO William
TerhoOn, Of Heppner, wers all sim.
ultaneously killed bya stroke Of
Iightaipg. The wind and rain and
thunder and lightning in that To-
,ality were most terrific. several
ences were blown down over on
Wild Horse tresk but 20 far we
nave not heard that any human life
vas lost in consequence Of the
torn. "lasb "A pa saw
"A private letter from Yakima
tates that = mass meeting has ieeD
'eld and . party Of viewers en-
ysgeds who started out on the 3D. /
nst. to view a wagon road frOIn I
Yakima TO Seattle by way OF the
Pass. In about ten days
he viewers are expected 70 return,
nd il their report ot The Route be =
avorsble, the people intend to try
o buildthe road, orapatt oft, this ]
nrpmeF. 'l 8 81 9a> 2G Il
The Statesnq9 says: "We learn
nth sincere regret that L. S. Davis, :
fSilyestOn, died yesterday morn
ng OF consumption. He was one
t the first settlers ia that part Of O
bs copnty, coming here, We think, I
. early - l8477S. He was 4
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

The u. S Mint at San Fran.
cisco coined s., 10000 silver Trade
Dollars during the last year.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

The Ottoman Government win
send an army to the Turkish from
tier 1t once. Turkey is upon IL.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04
At the DEisA4tlmy.
BY calling ON
II. c. HILL q SOW,

With, q prescription, where you can have
1t compounded by one experienced in that
particular line. Also, constantly on hand
a good assortment Of fresh drugs, patent
medicines, chemicals, paints, ola dye.
stttfis, trusses, etc. Agents for the
Celebrated Umk weed lsenAeay.
Or, Oregon Rheumatic Cure; Or. D. Jayne
4 Sons medicines, etc. ~
spence's Positive ana Negative Powders
kept in stock Also agents for the
Home Ghattle Bewing HHachiMe,
One Of thernest useful pieces Of househoId
furniture extAnt. Call and examine.
X. G. HILL d SON.
Albany, June 10, 7R-AOvs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-04

4 Murder in Albany
ETAENEvER YET BEEN KNOWN, Avn
II no threatening OF 1t at present.
Death
Ia thing which sometime must befsli
every son and daughter Of the human fan
uyi and yet,
At the OEld-dny,
OF your life, II disease lays his vile hands
upon you, there Is still - balm in Gilead,"
by which you may be restored to perfect
health, and prolong your daygto Q miracu-
lCtis extent.
How 2
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-10

the Very Rev. Archdoacon Philpott in
the presence of large congregation
The married couple both belong to the
parish of lexington, but the singular
part is the fact that the bride has no
arms, and the ring had to be placed on
the third toe of her left foot. At the
conclusion of the marriage ceremony she
signed the register, holding the pen with
her toes, in very decent hand.''
The royal family in England arc con-
siderably mixed in their church relations.
Queen Victoria is Presbyterian and Epis-
cOpallan by turns, according to her resi-
dence. The Prince of Wales inclincs to
Ritualism, while his eldest sister, the
Princess of Germany, is Lutheran; his
brother-in-law, Lord Lorne, is Prcsby-
tcrian; another brother-in-law, the Prince
Imperial of Russia. is Protestant
Lutheran; a sistcr-in-law, the Duchess
of Edinburgh, is Greek Catholic; her
husband is ii LOwChurch Episcopalian ;
the other brothers and sisters, like their
mother, alternate between the Episcopal
and Presbyterian Churches, depending
on their residence for the time being.
A tricolor flag on the summit of Metz
cathedral which has been constant eye
sore to the Germans has just been re-
moved, reward of 100 tlalcrs having
been offered for the feat, which was at
tended with considerable danger, as,
after the top of the Gothic tower was
reached, two balls had to be scaled to
reach the flagstaff. Demangc, house
painter at Metz, accomplished the feat
He had provided himself with two planks
for scaling the balls, and on surmounting
the first he staggered, and everybody ex-
pected him to fall, but he recovered him.
self, reached the flagstaff, lowered the
French tricolor and substituted Ger
man flag of black, white and red. Pre-
viously, seven Germans had failed in the
task, two of whom lost their lives.
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Foreign Gossip.

The rainfall in England for the first
six months of 1874 only amounted to sc
inches, or but little more than half the
average amount, which is 11.2 inches.
"A recent Paris dispatch states that
during the recent excavations at Am
boise, on the left bank of the Loire,
the body of Leonardo da Vinci, the cele-
bratcd Italian painter and poet, had been
discovered in perfect state of preserva-
ton. He died in the early part of the
sixteenth century.
Recently French newspaper pub
ilshed that bankers country house had
been robbed in the night, "but fortu-
nately the thieves in their hurry had
failed to open the second drawer on the
right-hand side of the escritoire, in which
was a large sum of money in bank
notes." Two or three days later the
editor received the following note:
MIR. EDLTOR-I cannot sufficiently thank You
Tor the Information given in your excellent paper.
1t was in every respect exact, as found on going
last night, for the second time, to the house OF
N. =. The bills were there, and now are in
my possession.
No signature. You will understand my
scruplcs.]
"A Madrid letter says: "Concha
died poor. He left behind him little but
his great name. His will declares his
only child, the Marquesa dc Sardbel,
heiress of the little residue. He had for
years been great patron of agriculture,
and had spent his fortune in sugar-grow-
ing experiments in the ncigborhood of
Malaga"
An extraordinary marriage took
place at lexington, England, the other
Gay, the ceremony being performed by
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-10
Personal and Literary.

Josh Billings spells "a quarter of :
million" with perfect accuracy. That il
the sum his eccentric photography ha
ncttcd him.
e. G. Squicr, the author, known by
his works on Central America, has be
come insane and has been sent to al
asylum in New York. He owns a fin,
country residence on Long Island.
The Duke Alexis has said that Amer
lean caterers know little about cooking
or placing food before guests, for which
Il Philadelphia rcstaurantcr has attacked
him with written argument in favor OF
"our STYLE
President Grant has written to Judge
Long, of st. Louis, to say that he will ut
tend the fair to be held in that city during
the week ending Oct. II. He will be &C
companied by Mrs. Grant and intends tc
remain about a week.
Miss Isadorc Pratt, of Massachusetts
has succeeded in gaining admittance tc
the Royal Art Academy at Berlin, but
being "only a woman her name does
not appear on the roll of students, and
for the same reason no money will be &C
ccptcd from her, which, she says, is the
only advantage she ever gained by wear.
ing skirts.
The most distinguished expositor of
gastronomy in this age and country,
Prof. Blot, is dead He was descended
from the nation of cooks, and before
coming to America was an advanced
student in the science which he after
ward Illuminated The professor was Il
good cook and something more. He was
Il gentleman, an accomplished teacher, !,
luminous writer and Il most becoming
and assiduous dcvourer of the good
things of this world.
"A gentleman who crossed the Allan
tic in the steamer which bore RochcfOrt
to England says that the marked admira-
ton of the Fugitive of Noumea" for il
young American lady afforded much
amusement to the other passengers.
fair object of his adoration-unablc to
speak IA word of English, used to wrap
himself in tiger skin and take seat on
destroyer of his peace of mind, and look
all that he was unable to say to her.
Miss Wordsworth, sister of the poet,
was passing through wood which the
stock-dovc was filling with its soft music
when she fell in with countrywoman,
who eNclaimcd: am so fond of stock
doves" "Oh!' thought Miss Words
worth, sat last l have come on one of
natures poets with Il soul to appreciate
the beautiful music of the BIRDS Very
was the dream disenchanted
by an explanatory remark of the wom
an" Some likes 'em in pies and some
likes 'em roasted; but for my part
think there's nothing like en- stcwed
with onions"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-10
Spectral.

II Il small beam of light is allowed to
fall on Il triangular piece of glass called
prism it is immediately split up into
4 ribbon of brilliant colors. beginning at
ont end with a dark hrowniSh-rcu. and
ending at the other with dark violet
This ribbon is called the solar spec.
trUni. he formation of this spectrum
l. caused by the fact that what appears
I" our eyes as white light is really COM
posed OF a number of colored light 5
which were formerly thought to COM
prise seven distinct tint>-red, orange,
yellow. green, blue. indigo, violet The
reason why the prism decompoScs the
Win" ray into these co}ors is that they
possess different degrees of refrangi-
hllitN," that is, some OF them, as the
violet =" through the glass at an angle
nearly approaching Il >trai ght line, willie
tn, red rays bend themselves nearly to IL
right angle The causc of these wonder
tui prculiariticS we cannot at present di-
Vine, hut they are probably in some way
related to the wavc-lcngth> of the differ
'n1 rays and the vclocites with which
they travel through space. The length
OF Il wave i'll the extreme end of the
violet is about IS. 900 en-millionths of a
mi.Iimctcr, while in the extreme brown
i>hrcu the W0vc-lCngth is about $4,000
tcn-milliunth> of a millimctcr. These
na-niluuc> are SO SNAIL as to be beyond
human conception, but they have been
determined with the creates. accuracy
by physicists.
~ long as we form the spectrum by
means OF ray of light coming through IA
round or irregularlv shaped hole we can
perceive nothing in regard to it except
the beauty and brilliancy of its colors:
and il was because Sir Isaac Newton
made use of no other means of forming
spectrum that he advanced no further in
the study of this phenomenon. But it
occurred to DR.. Wollarton that if the
position of the various coors was due to
their different refrangibilticS, then the
best way of forming the spectrum was to
"Tdsr TIE fyht 10 dtvp uj,ou tie prism .tivm
" I,T7"tr MU. He tried this experiment,
and in 80 doing arrived at discovery
which completely rrvolutioniZed all
former conceptions a> to the constitution
ri the heavenly bodies, and introduced Il
test of Uncomfortable dclicacy into chem
l~try which has already led to the dis
c"vcry of four new metals, and opened
such new views as to the elemental and
molecular conditions of bodies as promise
To- lead to results of extraordinary value
in the future.
The discovery which Dr. Wollarton
made Was this: That while the back
gr"und-as we may call it-of the solar
spectrum Is the many-colrrcd ribbon
above mentioned. this ribbon is crossed
by a great number of dark lines, some as
fine as the finest spiders thread, others
gathered together in groups SO thicklv as
/" form bands. These lines always main
from the vast number of small lines, of
Which We cannot now take notice, there
are eleven principal lines in the solar
spectrum Which arc usually lc>i grated
10y letters, and whose wuvc-lcngths arc
roughly indicated as follows