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

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Falls, n. Y. burned down on the 23d.
Loss, $50, 0,000-insured.
Complete election returns from Ohio
show fourteen Democrats and six Re-
publican Congressman elected.
The Alliance Gas Company's works,
of Dublin, were burned on the 23d.
Loss very heavy.
An American has been arrested at
Constantinople, charged with perpe-
trating heavy fraud on the Imperial
Ottoman Bank.
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, has
issued proclamation changing Com
misSioners in every county of the State,
so that each board shall be composed
of one Republican, one Independent
Republican, and one Conservative.
1t is announced that great changes
will be made in the Internal Revenue
and Post Office departments of Texas.
Good men irrespective of party will
be selected for the offices.
Lieut.. Col. Buell., in 4 recent cam
pa1gn against the Indians In the Indian
Territory, destroyed $50 lodges, and
made some good Indians.
On the 9th inst. the President ap-
pointed John j. Wood, of Iowa, agent
at the Black Fleet Agency, Montana :;
n. f. Clapp of Kansas, agent for the
Crow Agency, Montana, and James
Wright, of Iowa, agent at Fort Hall,
Idaho.
News from South America are ratll-
er gloomy. Advices from the Argen-
tine States, October 21st, state that
Government troops were joining the
Insurgents i'll great numbers.
A telegram from Ottowa, Canada,
Oct. oath, says: \ dispatch from the
Imperial Colonial Minister says it has
been decided that certificates of natur-
alization granted in the United States
do not confer on an alien any right or
privilege in the British Colonies.
The Turks i'll Montenegro are re-
ported as continuing their outrages
against the Christians, having killed
a number Of Montenegrian and Saxon
residents i'll the neighborhood of Pod
goritza, and burned the village. The
Christians were compelled to flee to the
mountains.
Mr.. George w. Childs is already
negotiating for the purchase of New
York's new daily, the Repn52ic.
From the stomach of Captain Otis
Rogers, OF Marshtield. Mass. has been
extracted an animal five inches long.
which he thinks he swallowed while
drinking from pool in South Carolina,
during the war.
The Democrats of the Seventh Massa-
chusetts Congressional District have
nominated John II. Tarbox. and the
Republicans DIR. j. c. Aver.
A dentist in Wisconsin, who found
it necessary to kiss a young lady While
filling her teeth, was called upon by
her papa, with i shotgun. He paid
the parent $500 not to fire, being eX-
ceedingly aYerse to noise.
Chambers. the most terrible disease
that horse-fiesh is heir to, is now rag
ing in many OF the Eastern cities, in
Guiding Pittsburg, Cleveland and New
York, and is said, also, to have made
its appearance in Chicago.
The Archbishop of Cologne. who
was imprisoned by Bismarck over six
months ago for refusing to obey Che
ecclesiastical laws, has just been re-
leased. He served his full term. and
to the last refused to recognize the
right of the State to control ecciesias-
tical affairs.
Postmaster General Jewell is as
severe on claim agents as he is deter
mined to root out the practice of re-
ceivipg straw bail on department con-
tracts. He has informed the President
of the Erie Railway Company that it
is his desire that ''no agent shall stand
between the department and any par
ties with whom it has business The
conclusion of his dispatch to President
Jewett-''but l cannot and will not
tolerate claim agents''-has touch of
the old Jacksonian ring to it.
The appended is from Boston. Oc-
tober 10Th: a meeting was held on
Sunday night in Hollis street church
to consider the Indian policy. Father
Gleason presided, and in the course of
his remarks he eulogized Capt. Jack,
and defended his shooting of General
Candy and Commissioner Thomas.
Col. Meacham arose and said that he