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

Roads leading out from this city
are in splendid order, and fine turn.
are 70 be had at our livery stables.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

The late attempt on Bismarck's
life is laid to Catholic influence.
and there is intense excitement in
Berlin.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

A priest named Kolterer has
been arrested under the belief that
he was an accessory to the recent
attempted assassination of Bismarck,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

The question ofa legal separation
Of Mr. and Mrs. TflJon is now in
the hands of n. B. Morse, for.
merly Judge Of the Court Of Ap-
Peals, and Ms. Tilton's step-fatber.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

A Little Rock special on the
l4th, says another war is imminent
In Arkansas All the militia was
under arms They seem to be in a
terrible state ofanarchy down there.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

8. B. Parrish has been appointed
Indian Agent for the .Malheur
Agency In this State.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

H! g. Newby has taken Prof:
Z. +. sox into partnership in the
new warehouse building anent tho
depot.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

VIM. Tally talks Of taking spin
out south for . few days, during
the heated term.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

J.H. Hcughton has been chosen
Secretary Of the Olympia and Ten.
inO RailrOad Co. IL placs Of Mr..
Holman, Fssignsd.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

A game cfCheas Is 70 be played
between French and English play.
srs.the firat il Paris and the 9th.
ers 10 LOndonthe moves 10 becon-
Neyed BY telegraph.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

1t is now believed that shooting
stars are often fragments of comets.
In lS45 Biela's comet became divid.
ed into two portions which swung
away from each other, until in
1858 they were several millions of
miles apart. One Of the portions
was again diseoserd 1872; the other
PORTIONS of the earth plunged
through about the same time
(Noy. 2S), giving rise to the won.
dertnl star-shower Of that year.
Astronomers have also succeeded in
showing the probable connection Of
comet observed in China, in 1867
with a great star-shower observed
that year. Rlinkerfaes regards the
comet seen in 1852 as probaly iden-
tlcal with Biela's comet, and also
as having been intimately connected
with the shower Of meteors known
to have been observed in 1924.
The meteorite which fell in North.
ern Germany in May 1872, set tho
roof Of a house on fire whereby that
and several other buildings were
destroyed. On the 18th Of June,
1873, a brilliant meteor was seen
over Southern Germany. When
first seen its height was calculated
to be about eight and halt miles,
AT about half that distance it ex-
ploded with a fearful noise and the
fragments tell burning to the earth.
some Of which, Of the size ofpeas.
where secured by the inhabitants.
lhe diameter Of the mass is con-
'luded to have been about l,0OOfeet.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18
SATURDAY, JULY Is, 1874.
Business very quiet indeed.

The dailies failed to arrive BY
mail yesterday.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

California and Kentucky spring
wool 10 quoted at SO@4OC in Bos.
ton.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

Wells, Fargo 8 Co. paid an
annual dividend Of 5000, 900 on the
18th.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

A Ministerial crisis is reported as
impending at Madrid.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

Tho Victoria Standard ot the
ssh eye: Fonr children wese gwen
biStA 70 ID this city % yesterday,
; gi and thsaS bcys all doing
S
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-07-18

Greenbacks quoted at g1@9l3
in San Francisco on the 10th.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11

from Alameda: about seven miles
distant, with his sleeves rolled
az and with pick or shovel in
hand, trying to earn his twenty
cents an hour alongside Of the
brawny laborers. But the most
remarkable part was that, when
the bell tapped for recitation in
mathematics, he was promptly in
his place with 4 perfect recitation.
ltiS considered remarkable if STU
dent can get through & term perfect
in either recitation or examina-
ton, and but one or two in a class
Of sixty or seventy ever do this;
but Glcnnon generally came of:
perfect in both, AID often, when
the whole section failed on a. diff
cult proOlem, our nero would walk
to the board and settle it in a
twinkling. Again, after recita-
tioas, James would be found, with
cheerful face and ready jokes at
command, trundling his wheel
barrow Or welding his homely i'm
plements among the grading
hands, whom he always kept in
jolly humor by his ready wit. 4
boy capable of doing all this is
bound to succeed in life"
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11

with his hands and Sobbcd as il
his heart would break. But tie
train was about leaving, and Join
thrust the little piece Of calico in.
to bis bosom to remember his
mother by, hurried into a Car, and
was soon far away from the place
where he had seen so much sorrow.
We know mary an eye will mois-
ten as the story is told and re-told
throughout the country, and o
prayer will 60 to God for the "a
therleSs and mothcrless in all great
cities and places. Little readers.
are your mothers still spared to
you? will you not show your love
by obediance? That little boy who
loved SO well. surely obeyed.-
Bear this in mind that if you
should one day have to look up
on the face of q dead mother, no
thought would be SO bitter as to
remember that you gave her pain
by your wilfulness and disobedi-
ence.-Er.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.

We heard story told the other
day, that made our eyes molsten.
We have determined to tell 1t: just
as we heard it, to our little ones:
A company Of poor children
who had been gathered out OF the
alleys and garrets of the city were
preparing for their departure to
new and distant homes in the
West. Just before the time Of
starting on the cars: one of the
BOYS was noticed aside from the
herand appeared very busy with
his cast off garment. The super
intendent stepped up TO him: and
found that he was cutting q small
piece cut Of the patched Innings
1t proved to be his old jacket,
which, having been replaced by a
new one, had been thrown away.
There was no time to be lost.
"Come. John, come" said the
superintendent, "wbat are you go.
ing to do with that old piece Of
calico?'
please, sir" said John, II am
cutting it to take with me. Ny
dear mother put the lining into
this old jacket for me. This was
piece of her dress, and it is all
l have to remember her by"
And as the poor boy thought OF
that dear mothers love, and ofthe
sad death-scene in the old garret
where she died, be covered his face
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
miscellaneous.
CD
ALEXANDRA DUMAS. PERE.

Alexandra Dumas the whole
novel.reading world knew literal
ly by heart. He was the son of a
mulatto general Of extraordinary
powers and courage, to whom Ma
poleon, on account Of his single
handed defence Of a bridge against
the enemy, in the battle of Brixen,
eave the name of the Horatius
Coolies of the Tyrol. Dumas:
though the son of q Caucasian wo-
man, was darker than his fighting
father, and had many more marks
of the mulatto. TO his admixture
of African blood he owed his vivid
imagination, his extreme prodigal-
ity, his love of display, and his
melo. dramatic instincts.
His capacity for composition
and tireless work was altogether
| abnormal. lie wrote faster than
a rapid penman could copy: his av-
erage daily task being thirty-ti7e
pages of a French octave volume.
Stories have been circulated Of his
having had in Paris a species of
! mental machine shop. in which
clever men wrote, at his sug'
gcstion, and under his supervision,
dramas, travels, novels, histories.
brochures. sketches, and memoirs
bv the dozen, turning them out
almost as rapidly as shoes are turn
ed out at Lynn or print cloths at
| Fall River. Such stories were eX.
aggerations, but not without 9
substantial basis Of fact. lnVen-
ton and industry like his had
never been known in France or in
any other land. He was a miracle
Of performance-the Sampson o:
scribes. He did not labor sc
much from literary ambition a:
tor money, Of which he was eter
nallv in need. The more be earn
ed Che is said to have been III re
ceipt, during the height of nj:
popularity, Of $4,000, $4,000 anc
even $4,000 a Year, the more ht
wanted, for his expenditure wa
unlimited, and his tastes were a
extravagaut as they were ca
pricious. His purse was open a
both ends, yawning to be filed a
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
THE FLYING HEN.

The EFFECTS OF A Hot BRIcK.-
Mrs. Battles, says Max Adeler,
suffers from cold feet, and the other
night she warmed up q brick ia
tending to take it to bed with Eer.
She laid it down by the bedside
while she attended to the baby,
aud then forgot about it and turn
ed in. After awhile Battles came
over to the bedroom, and when
he had assumed his night shir: be
began to say his prayers. When
be was about half way through be
happened to move his knee q little
to the left, and it came in contract
with the brick. For an instant he
thought that something had stung
him, and jumping up, he came
back to ascertain what it was. He
saw the brick lying there, Aut it
never occurred to him that it was
the cause Of trouble, so he picked
it up for the purpose OF: throwing
it out Of the window. Then he
suddenly dropped it on two of his
corns with cry of pain, and after
an indignant denunciation to Mrs.
Battles, he procured piece Of
paper, and in furious rage hurled
the brick through the wlndow-sash.
1t bit policeman who happened
to be standing on the pavement
below, and in less than ten minutes
Battles was on his way to the
station.house, where he was locked
up all night on charge Of assault
and battery. he was released in
the morning after paying $40 fac.
He has not finished his prayers
vet, and Mrs. Battles now warns
her feet with a flannel petticoat.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11


THE RECORD OF A DAY.-We take
from the New York .SM of the 18th,
the headings Of the accounts OF crimes
and misfortuues
"A wife choked to death by a drunk
en- husband. \ beautiful life worn
out in the struggle for bread in New
York. Labor strike in Brooklyn. \
woman found starving to death in a
water street cellar. Quarrel over a
woman aud killing Of Frank Lake at
Mahwah, NJ. Charles II. Phillips
tried at Albany, \. y, for forgery
killing Of Charles McDougall in West
Fifteenth Street, y. Y. \ saloon
keeper making targets Of FIVE Of his
customers. McMahon bloody night.
Defrauding workingmen by Grants
officials. Woman kicked to death in
Williamsburg, n. Y. The headless
body of a man on the Morris Il LsseS
railroad. An unknown man found
dead at South Ferry. Lewis Miller
stabbed at II Forsyth street. The
scandal lawsuits. Beecher-Tilton cases
Fued between brothers and killing Of
William Lifts. Meeting of spiritual
lists. Freaks Of the ghosts. The saft
burglary Scandals"
When single day brings forth such
a record, the saints might cease fen
hours from weeping oyer Southern
sins, AMI might think about tht
crimes. want and suffering among
themselves.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
WHAT WOMAN MAKES HIM

How cheering is the simple phrase!
How we'll its kindly admonition
To Noman's listening ear conveys
The knowledge of her glorious mission.
She may not mingle with the th7ong,
When man to busy life betakes him,
Ye, may she prove his shield from wrong
"A Man is what a Woman makes him.
In Childhood's days Of grief and Joy
She rules his ductile mind-no other
Can soothe and guide the wayward boy
With the calm wisdom Of a mother.
The memory ofher tender cares
Never in after life fors&aes him;
He yields not to the worlds vain snares-
The Son is what his Mother makes him.
Anon, q dear and cherished wife
Takes in bis home her honored station;
She proves, amid the Ills of life,
HE help, support and consolation.
he yields perchspce to dire distress
Her loving smile to Hope awakes him!
He braves the storn-he meets success
A Man IS what Woman makes him.
Yet TO my warning lay attend
Iurge you, Sisters, Wives and Mothers,
Your own weak tollies to amend,
Ere you can prove stay to others!
Should you be selfish. worldly, vain,
Say, how can Man when grief o'ertakes hin
Aid from hesrtless trifer gain?
A Man is what Woman makes him.
Seek ye 20 serve the Lord and prsy
That He may give to you direction
How best to win to duty S way
The object Of your fond affection,
What if awhile he quit the track
Your influence never quite forsakes him;
Your love, your prayers will bring him back
A Man is Whist Woman makes him.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
! You've CALIFORNIA CADET.

4 YOUNG CALIFORNIA CADET
Mention has been made in the
Chronicle Of the appointment by
Congressman Page ofycung jim
my Gleunon, ofOakland, toa cadet
ship in the naval school. Some
Interesting facts have leaked out
concerning the young mans career:
which 60 to show that the appoint
ment is eminently a wise one
Young Glennon's school record
has been wonderful. An admiring
young classmate writes a long let
ter to the Chronicle concerning
it, in which he says: ITO show
the enormous task the boy has been
performing at the University, it
may be interesting to state that
as long as there was grading offer
ed the boys to do around the
grounds, Glennon, at the first
hours in the morning, was over
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
Doetrpp.
THE COTTAGE.
BY Macy JANE WINES.

How sweet the charm ,l,a: fingers round the
cot,
How richly blest, though humble oe their
lot,
Are they who dwell in peace and love, where
sweet conteus
Its steadfast and efulgent star has ient'
Who till the soil and love the verdant soo'
The works Of Nature and kind Nature ooo
When rosy beams of summer morning oseaH'
From bstny sleep the little household waSe'
And ont into the pure and radiant air
Each gladly seeks the daily tasks to snare;
Where free and truly each un1utored heart
Nav act It's pleasure, unsestrained by ART
Where etiquette by love and truth is bound
The puress, holiest joys Of earth are found
TIE little children HE them to their bowers
like rival eard'ne cultivate their flowers,
Watching the birds, the butterflies, and oee''
The fruised vines, and richly laden trees;
Pleasure and duty blending all day long,
With song of bird is joined the hearts sweet
song.
No fancied ills distress the little band,
Each proudly seeks in frmest health 10
stand;
And when the beard with wholesome 1000 Is
spread,
None sigh with pamperirg dainsies to be
The troubles which Cypress the rich and
grand
ara nave, known amid that little band.
Fashion. whose laws but biud in folly'S
chains, ..~.r.
Within that home dominion never gains
The housewives independence true, ana
honest pride,
Between the slaves Of fashion shows mar
gin wide,
And itwouh never cause a sigh or tear,
Though she should wear bonnet OF last
Year.
Wild speculation never haunts the good
mans brain,
Nor eager frenzy wiring his soul with psin'
Till vorr and pallid with the furious strife'
The care and trouble makes woe Of life;
But countless blessings in his lot he finds,
AedneEer at his humble state repines;
Still keeps the even tenor Of his way,
And gains lite's purest happiness each day.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11

ing, jim ~ 1 heard the landlord
ask, as he set out & tum bier.
"Nothing, returned the fat man,
emphatically. "I'm done. Mike
FingaI, I'm done with the stuff.
III drink no more oft. | wouldn't t
come now only poor Loch!and
was up, and his wife was hanging
around his neck. They were cry.
in 50 that | couldn't stand it, and
had to clear out. 0, its dreadful,
Mike Flngal You don't know what
them poor things have suffered !
But they sLan't have my example
any more"
"AII ready" shouted the driver,
and | was forced to leave.
The wind had all gone down !;
the air was braclng, and slowly
we waIlowed away from the viii
laye.
l reached Buffalo two days later
than | expected to when started,
and having transacted my business
there l went to Mississippi, and SO
on down to New Orleans. Four
years aftcrward | had occasion to
travel that same road again, and
stopped in that samo village to
take dinner. The bar was still
open, but Michael Fingal had gone
away. | walked out after dinner,
and soon came across a neatly
painted office, over the door Of
which | read, "Gecrge Lockland,
attorney and counselor at law"
In lessLhan five minutes aftcrward
| saw q fat, good-natured looking
man coming toward me, whom | at
once recognized as Jim Drake.
As he came up [ said:
"Excuse me, sir, but | wish to
know how Mr.. Lockland is getting
on now?"
esquire Lockland, you mem ?"
he answered, with proud look.
"You know them ~
II did oncc," said |.
"'Then you ought to know him
now. He is the first man in the
county, sir. -Four years ago this
month, coming, he was just about
as low as a man can be. ibid you
ever know the Squirc's wife?''
II have seen her." l replied. l
saw Drake did not recognize me.
"But you should see her now.
Ah, It ,""s ernat change for her.
That's their child-tbat little gr.1
coming this way. Aiu't that .
picture for YEP"
looked, and saw a bright-eyed:
sunny-L aired girl of eight sum-
mers, coming laughing and trip
ping along like 4 little fairy. She
stopped as she came to where we
stood: and put up her arms-"Un-
Gle Drake" as she called the old
man, and while he was kissing her,
and chatting with her, [ moved
on. I looked back once more on
that happy, beauteous face just to
contrast it with the pale, frighten-
ed features | had seen on that
night in the bar-room.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
LETTING CD OF HANDS.
by MARGARET J. PRESTON.

o the chill, clinging crush Of the fingers
Each pressure more faint than the last;
The slow-loos' ming hold that still 'ingers'
Though the wrench Of spirit be passed!
What hear. in its hopeleSsness breaking
To feel them can stide the cry
The human within US is making
,"God help or We die!'
We wiring with q passion ofsorrow,
We cover with kisses Of pain
The palm that some fairer Tomorrow
Wen fold in old fcadness again.
We drop the pale fingers. whose coi0ing
IupassiYeness startles our own,
Foreyer-we kuow-from our holding;
Yet weep not nor groan.
How can we? The spirit is deadened
To numbness because Of the blow,
We know that the sunshine has leadeoed
To blackness; 'tis all that we know.
SO shrouded we marvel that, letting
Hands 20 thus, we keep, as we may
As we must, life within US, forgetting
That grief does not slay.
All! did it, how oft in our lonely
Despai.s would we hail it tinstead,
OF Friends the most friendly, if only
/: let Us lie down with the dead.
But with deeper refinement of anguish,
Through rsckings and tortures and tesri
Ienerves US to bear as We languish
Alosg the gray years.
And kind ones, in soothiugest fashion
mot always ev'n love uuderstands,)
Speak low in their tender compassion
OF the beautiful folding of hands
vouchsafed our Beloveds-of graspings
For which the iopg-parted so pine;
What comfort to me the keen claSpings
When the clasp is not mine!
hands that lie crossing so sanity
The bosom on which have leant;
Could press them, though ever so family
Just once. would wait with content
For the time thatso !oiters, So fingers,
When with rapture uudreamed Of before
Icatched to my lips the dear fingers,
And lose them no more!
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11

clear an oyster from his na.
tive bed, and from all the tender
affections that cling around him at
the place of his birth, and trans
plant him to the pacific coast,
and be dies of sheer homesickness
within year." And yet, to gaze
on the extreme placidity Of fried
oyster: you would scarcely think
that a little thing like that could
affect him so.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11
NOVEL READlNG-ES 1T SIN
FCL.


lite in its religious profession, re-
plies to the question Of = CORES
pondent: is the habit Of novel
reading sinful ?" as follows:
The objects had in view are
First, to obtain information. Sec
ond, to be awakened to reflection
and Investigation. Third, to be
warned against evil; and strength
ened in the love OF that which is
good. Fourth. to form and culti-
vate a correct taste-to minister
to the love of the beautiful. 1t is
evident, at a glance, that novels if
allowable at all, cannot properly
form the staple Of our reading, as
they cannot minister to the more
imporlantends sought. Novels do
not convey information; neither is
it their prime object to awaken re-
fection and investigation. They
may warn against evil and encour-
age goodness, and they may aid
US to cultivate a pure literary
taste. They are chiefly valuable
when valuable at all-delinea-
tions Of character, and for anmask-
vices, or crimes Of theage. We can
no more condemn all novels, there
fore, than we can recommend all
| books that are not novels. A thing
may be as valuable on a page Of
fiction, when true to nature, as
when furnished on the historic
page as true in fact. The lessons
taught in the parallels of Jesus
are as valuable rs if they had
been conveyed in u homily, and
great deal more pleasant to
study.
But as it is not the chief end of
reading to crafty the imagina-
tion or please the fancy, novel
reading must hold a subordinate
; place. AS a literary recreation,
as pleasant change from severe
mental toll, as pleasant and not
useless way Of spending an odd
hour not otherwise devoted, as a
| pleasant treaty to an ovcrtaskcd
student or a relief TO q morbid
state of mind, it may be desirable
occasionally 20 read a good novel.
But when this becomes the chief
object Of attention, it absorbs time
from more valuable purposes, ener-
Yates the mental powers, units
for severe study, and emascuiates
the whole intellectual and moral
nature.
The Waverly novels are; in the
judgment of competent critics,
much better and every way freer
from objections than most works
of fiction. About once year, it
may be: one Of the Waverly movies
might be read by almost anybody
for the benefit Of mental rccrea-
ton. But to have novels lying
about the house, to be read by
children at will. is about as bad as
having whiskey about the house
to be drank by them at wiIl-es-
! pccially such trashy books as most
popular novels are. AS to the pro
portion Of time to be allotted to
novel reading we know nothing
better than the hint in Pauls &C,
vice to Timothy about wine -
"Take littIe," just a little.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-11-11

A Missouri judge has just deci-
ded that woman is not an old
maid until she is thirty-6Ve. The
Judge has since become very pop
ular.