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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

THE retributive tendency of the laws
of nature is being illustrated by the
spread among men in England of that
horrible disease, the glarders, which
is first produced in horses by bad feed
ing, overwork, and confinement in badly
ventilated stables. but particularly by
the cruel practice of obliging horses to
work while suffering from influenza,
diabetes, and other similar debilitating
complaints. Mans inhumsnity to his
best and most patient servant is thus
being punished by disease more con-
tagious than smallpox and more horri-
bic than the mostloathsome of venereal
disorders.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

ODD NAMEs.-One would think that
English peope were hard driven to find
names for themselves, both Christian
and surnames, to Judge from the odd
ones that crop up continually. Look
ing over volume of wills at Doctors s
Commons the other day, came upon
those three testators bearing respec-
lively the names of Flight Scurry." !"
Swift Fleet" and "North South. -
Only the day before turned up mar
riage license authorizing a Mr.. Pickle
to marry Miss Onion. Not long ago
gentleman in Devonshire named Pine
was compelled, on succeeding to the
estate of relative to take the addition
al surname of Coffin, and the whimsical
result is in a newspaper before me
which records the marriage of one of
his daughters as Miss Pine Coffin
London Letter.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
TIE LITTLE FOLKS.

The Ducks.
One little black duck,
One little gray,
Six little white ducks
Running ont to rlay;
One white lady duck, mot heriy and trim,
Eight little baby ducks, bound or a swim.
One little white duck
Running from the water,
One very fat duck
Pretty little daughter;
One very grave duck, swimming of alone,
One little white duck, standing a stone.
One little white ducS,
Holding up its wings,
One little hobting duck,
Making wat,r-rngs
one little black duck, turniuR round its head
one big black duck-1ee he's gone to bed.
oce little white duck
Walking by its mother:
Look among the water-reeds,
Maybe there's another.
Not another anywhere surely you are blind;
Push away the grass, dear, ducks hard to find
But think my duck
Is the incest duck of all,
He hant any feathers,
And his mouth is sweet and small;
He runs With light step and jumps upon my knee
One little lady duck, motherIy and trim,
Eight little baby-ducks, bound for a swim;
oae lazy back duck, taking quite nap;
One precious little duck, here mothers lap.
-Selected
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
OUARRELS.

These are ugly things, yet they will
happen, sometimes, even in the best
regulated families But, very often,
they arise from mere trifles, an illustra-
ton of which is given in the following
old story, which contains so good a
moral that it will bear to be republished
once more, if not several times:
A loving newly married couple sat
down to tea for the first time in their
new home. Happy as pair of birds,
they were billing and cooling to each
other, when seeing something run out
of the chimney corner, they exclaimed,
one of them, go see that rat,' and
the other, "Oi see that mouse"
go! no, it was rat.
emo; it was a mouse"
"Not at all. my dear; I saw it, and I
am sure it was rat
''And 1 saw it, too, and know it was
a mouse"
s'I say it was rat.
81 say it was a mouse"
'"Twas rat s'No, twas mouse. !"
"'Twas rat "'Twas mouse. :"
And they kept it up until both were in
a passion, and finally the bride in her
tears and her anger said she would go
home to her parents, and away she
went.
A few days or weeks of reflection
showed them both their exceeding folly,
and they readily yielded to the sugges-
tion of friends that they were couple
of little fools, and had better come to-
gether again, which they did.
Once more seated at their cheerful
tea-t table, in the cosiest of rooms, and
happy in the thought that they were re-
stored to their own sweet home, they
looked across the table into each other
eyes, and one of them said, laughingly,
to the other:
Was it not foolish for us to make
such big fuss about that good-for-
nothing little mouse %
"Why, dear, it wasn't mouse; it
was rat. -
"No, love, it was a mouse. saw it
myself
"And SO did I, and I am sure it was
a rat
And so at it they went again, one at
positive and uny;elding as the other
till they were as mad as before, and the
wife went off to her father, and that
| ended their living together
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

{ A DEAF old lady, who had brought an
action for damages against a neighbor,
was being examined, when the Judge
suggested compromise, and instructed
the counsel to ask what she would take
to settle the matter. "His Honor
wants to know what you will take %
asked the learned counsel, bawling as
loud as ever he could in the old lady's
ear. 81 thank his Honor kindly" an
swered the ancient dame " and if it's
no ill-conwenience to him, I'll take lit
tie warm ale -
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

WE near very favorable encom1ums
regarding the Elrnwood and Warwick Collars,
manufactured by tho Narragansett Collar
Company. These collars have linen facing,
and, owing to the popularity of cut. are most
comfortable and neat-ftting articles. The
edges of the collars are folded in underneath
all around, thus strengthening the collar and
preventing the points from turning up. We
recommend these collars to our friends
Fashion Article, ". 7. Ereni1lg Mail
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

night. We have conversed with other
astronomers who affirm that in Septem-
ber and October, judging from the
number which cross the fields of their
telescopes, the whole air seems to be
literally filed with birds flying south
ward at night and again in April the
same phenomenon reappears, the only
difference being that the direction of
fight is reversed.-Hartford Times.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

$40 TO ZOO invested in Wall-street
often leads to fortune Pamphlet with ex-
plantations and statistics of Railroads, Stocks.
Bonds, &c, with other valuable information.
mailed on receipt of so cents. Address Alex
rockingham Co. Bankers and Brokers.
II Wall-street, New York
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
WILHoFr's Tonic /

WLHoFT's Tonic !-UNFAILISe AND
INFALLIBLE This great Chill Tonic cures
Chills without the intervention of doctors and
their bills. No consulting vieits-no pre-
scriptions to be flled-no huge bills entailing
pecuniary embarrassments, added to loss of
cause it enables him to earn living, and of
the rich, because it prepares him to enjoy his
wealth. This great boon to mankind is cheap,
safe and prompt WHEELoCK. FINLAY & Co.,
Proprietors, Now Orleans. For sale by all
druggists
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

Book AGENTS and every one should
send to Cooperative Pub. Co., Musca-
tine, Iowa, for catalogue and best terms
ever offered for frst class books. See
advertisement in this paper.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
THE NORTHWESTERN HoRsE-NAm Co. 8
'' Finished Nail is the best in the world.
Go TO RrvEns1DE Water Cure. Hamilton. II

The Rice Divorce Suit for fraud age, is
causing great excitement in Boston. 1t should
warn young men not to marry in haste. Rico is
but %; hi s bride 81. Hesw that she made him
believe she was but his own age, by using Magno-
liza Balm upon her face, neck and hands. Poor
youth He probably found her elbows we emit
quite soft and pretty. Ought Hagaa to be in
dicted? We know of many similar cases. Thts
Balm gives a most wonderful pearly and natural
complexion, to which we don't object. We like
pretty women. To finish the picture, they should
u Sc Lyon's Kathairon upon the hair. With pearly
chin rosy checks, and soft, luxurfoua tresses,
they become arr fsistible.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

THE tower IN honor of Abraham Lin
coin on Newman Halls church, in Lon
don, is the first monument to foreign
ruler ever erected on English soil.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

A FARMER near South Bend, Ind, has
over 200 swarms of bees and sells near
Iy 1900 pounds of honey per year.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
Prince O. Co.'s Organs.

Five octaves, two full sets of reeds
Solid walnut cases, elegant bronze finish.
Price, with six stops 1925; eight stops, $18O.
Address Reeds Temple of Music, Chicago.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

DRINKS FOR IA lLNG ND HAR VEST.
Agricultural journals persist in rec
ommending various concoctions for
farmers to drink during the heating and
exhausting labors of the hay field and
the harvest field. We have, in our day,
tried these various mixtures, but we
have found nothing equal to pure cold
well water Active exercise under sun
that would raise the mercury above 100
body to high degree, degree that
would prove fatal were it not for the
constant operation of natures infalIible
cooler = perspiration. Persplration
thickens the blood and other fluids,
causing thirst, frequent and intense.
What drink is so well calculated to re-
duce the internal heat and thin the
fluids as cold water? Having decided
upon using cold water as the beverage
of the hay and harvest fields, the next
thing is to use it judiciously. It can be
SO used as to be injurious. When the
laborer comes around to the water jug,
or whatever the vessel may be, hot and
thirsty, and breathing rapidly, if he
seizes the vessel and drinks until he is
satisfied, he will cool off too suddenly
and take too much water into his stom.
ach but if he will take a mouthful inte
his mouth, hold it for moment, garglt
it in his throat, and then eject it, and
afterward drink swallow at time
pausing a moment between swallows
he will find that q much less quantit,
will suffice to allay his thirst, and h
will cool off more gradually.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
A LEADING Life Insurance COnDaDV

Wants Successful Agents In the Western States
Contracts be obtained direct with the home
office, thereby securing the entire compensation
allowed by tho mpauy, which is an inducement
not usually offered. Liberal terms will be made
with LIVE, ACTIVE Agents. For particulars, ad-
dress, in full name Postofice Box 16, Chicago, Ill
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

THE Austrian explorers, Payer and
Weyprecht, seem to have reached the
most northerly point ever attained by
man. Capt. Hall. in his last voyage,
travelled by sledges to latitude 80 de-
grees 16 minutes DR.. Hayes, in 1861,
got as far as latitude 81 degrees 35 min
utes Morton discovered the supposed
open Polar Sea in latitude 50 degrees
27 minutes, and Parry, in 1927, at
tempting the spitzenberg route, went
as far north as latitude 80 degrees 45
minutes. We are informed that the
Austrian voyagers, however, reached the
SD parallel.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

Fell from a Railroad Car, and nearly broke
his neck Pat picked him up, rubbed him with
Mexican Mustang Liniment. and sfnt him on by
tho next train. Falls, bruises, cuts. contusions,
lameness and such accidents are constantly oc-
CURING. There is nothing SO sure, safe, cheap
and convenient as the celebrated Mustang Lini-
ment. It costs but 90 cents and S1oo per bottle,
out It. There il nR.@eeh, bone or muscle ailnnent
upon man ar11n Hike Rheumatism, Bruises,
spavAAnd Lame sEhich it will not alleviate
or cure. Why w9i1 you sunerf Beware Of coun-
terfeits 1t is wrapped in steel plate engrsving,
signed " G. W. westb<ook, Chemist
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

On Everybody's Tongue.-Eulogtun4s OF
the great National Regenerator of Health, PLAN-
TATIoE BITTERss are on everybody's tongue. This
gratuitous vita advertising is better than all
paid.for pufine TO which the owners of bogus
bitters obliged to resort. Ithas a spontaneous
heartiness about it which carries conviction 70
the mind of the auditor.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

EENnE CLEVELAND NORTHERN OHIO
Il FAIh ASSOCIATIONS awarded their Ora nd
Scer Medal to the MassRlon Erceiser " orks for the
best collection of AGric ItnFal luapleme It 8,
consisting of the Md dSSlton Harvester upon which
two men ride and bind the grain; Hodges Self
Raker, Excelsior Dropper, and the BdpiSs Riding
Wheel RaT9ois, which does twice the work OF
Drag with half the labor. Circulars free. Address
EDWIN BAYLISS. Prop,r. Massillon, Ohio.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

q Gh0N per day at home. Terms free. Address
% " % & VI GEO. SrIEsoN Co., Portland, MAtne-
A DvERTIsERsI Am. Newspaper Union repre-
IN sents over 800 papers, divided into subdi :
visions Send Scent stamp for Map showing loca-
ton OF papers, with combined and separate lists:
s. P. sANBORN. ia Monroe street. Chicago, III.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

Who desire to reach country readers do the
bcst and cheapest manner by using more sec
tials of THE GREAT NEWSPAPER AUXILIARY LISTS
Apply to E. Z. PRATT, 80 Jackson-st., Chicago
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

uTTuu No cold or sore fingers Do tTo mems work
QUOI Fits any hand-sells at sighs-Last q LIE
RIQ flor 81. postpaid. Agents wanted. Address
AlIlkCITY NOVELTY CO., Sth ST., Phila., Pa
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

&0E PER DAY Commission or $50 a week
sU 80 Sa1ary, and expenses. We offer it and will
pay it. Apply now. Gi.Webber d CO., Marion, o
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

G7 - EACH WE kGF<. Agents wanted pArt,cu.
% = lars frea. J. Worth Co., st. Louis No
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

pOOK AGENTS sst ssRs sSs e. aaa ns'
II encyclopedias of Things Worth Know
ing, or 25. 900 Wants Supplied.5 The King
of Receipt Books. 16-color Chromo free. Co oPER-
ArIvE Pun Co., Cincinnati, o.. or Muscatine, Iowa.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
Kuaint, Kueer g. Kurioue

(NANVASSERS WANTED for THE CHICAGO
- LEDG ER, an eight-paGe newspaper, for 81 30 per
year. Largest premiums ever offered TO agents.
The best paper in United States. Full particulars
on application to THE LEDGER Co., Chicago Ill.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

GENTS WANTED-Men or Women 9A a
IA week or 800 forfeited. The secret free. Write
at once to COWEN q CO., sth ST., New York.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

Employment. Best e.
1N1 offered. Address, NJ. n. LOWELL, Erie, P.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

Druggists and Gen. Agts. San Francisco. Caifornis.
and cor. of Washington and Charlton ST., N Y.
Sold by All Druggists and Dealers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

f YOU WANT A FIR ST-CLASS SEW
4 ING MACHINEs without money, write to
THE LEDGER Co, Chicago, Ill., and learn how you
can get one. A splendid offer.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

$1,000 PER WEEK
CAN BE MADE by any sm art man who can kee
his business to himself Address
D. F. Hermann, Hoboken, New Jersey
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
YOUNG MEN J; J;
ADVERTTSERS

ing with operators. Salary frol
month. Circulars mailed free.
N, w. TELEGRAPH INSTIIUT
Smyrna times., 1874-07-29
Maryland s. Delaware r.. r.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT
On and after MONDAY June ls 1874, trains will

Freight will have Passenger Car attach ed and will b
snbiect to delays incident to freight business.
reghts be at the various stations az least Thirt
(30 Minutes before starting OF Trains otherwise they will aI
twenty y-fOur (2il hours.
j. L.CALDWELL. Superintendent.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SOUTH.

A fire in Clinton, Mo-, burned half
the western side OF the public square. Loss
$4,000.
The legislature of West Virginia has
adjourned without removing the capital of the
state.
The steamboat Belle Lee ran into
and sunk the Spanish brig LIE Haute at New
Orleans last week loss $50, 600. The Spanish
bark Corstancia was also damaged.
The Cairo and Fulton Railroad bridge
across Arkansas river at Little Rock has been
completed. This gives an unbroken railway
connection between st. Louis and Fulton
The bridge across Red river at the latter place
is rapidly approaching completion.
The Collier white lead and oil COM
paDy's works, corner Clark and Tenth streets,
st Louis, caught fire and all the manufacture
ing part of the extensive building was des-
troyed. Loes machinery about $50. 900 :;
stock $1,000 building $40, 900. Insured for
$4,000
A colored delegation composed of
Geo. f. Dawning, Fredrick Douglas and 9th
ers had an interview last week by appointment
with Repre- tentative A. H. Stevens, of Geor-
gia. Stephens freely admitted that colored
men as citizens were entitled to full protec-
tion in their civil rights without any individu-
ous prescription but that it was the duty of
the respective states and not that of the fed
eral government yet, in order to secure them
Hon. Shakespeare Caldwell, formely
member of congress from Louisville Ky, but
now OF New York, turned over to the poor of
Louisville on Christmas day handsom build
ing for hospital purposes which he has had
erected at a cost of $50, 900. The edifice is to
be called the hospital of st. Mary and St.
Elizabeth and is TO be under the charge OF the
sisters of charity, but to be open for the re
ception of patients of every denomination.
The gift is made in memory of Mr.. CaldwelI's
wife, the only daughter of Col. Jas. D. Brick
inridge, the distinguished lawer The build
ing is furnished with all the modern convent
ences and will accommodate several hundred
patients.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-02
Zinc Bandages in Surgery.

An interesting and important expert
ment in surgery was performed at the
Park hospital, a few days ago, in the
presence of a number of distinguished
surgeons, by DR.. Fluhrer, inventor of a
new bandage for fractured limbs. The
contriyance consists of number of per-
forated zinc strips, which, when once
arranged, form an absolutely infexible
bandage, not to be disarranged by any
violence or uneasiness of the patient.
AS soon as these cover the point of
fracture, the limb is firmly set and the
natural outline restored. In one of the
wards of the Park hospital is Francis
Lefry, truckman who had compound
fracture of both thighs. No parallel
case of dual fracture, it is said, is on
medical record and, as the most un-
promising, the doctor selected it for a
practical test. After ether had been
given to the patient, DR.. Fluhrer bent
over the sole of each foot broad zinc
strip in the form of loop, the extremi-
ties of which were securely wrapped
with cloth bandages previously stepped
in plaster of paris, which were pre-
vented from slipping by the tooth-like
projections of the reverse side of the
punctured zinc. The terrible fracture
of both thighs, when the limbs were
stripped for this purpose, could be
plainly perceived. To the loops were
fastened stout cords, which passed ove1
the grooves of pulleys affixed to the
adjacent wall, and were drawn tight by
Warder Brennan. DIR. Fluhrer nexi
mummifed the limbs with a multiple
city of bandages, over which he laid hii
zinc strips, and covered them with {
second stratum of bandage. Immedi
ately the lumpiness about the region o.
injury disappeared, and the doctor ex
poets that, III six weeks, this baadag'
viii be removed. and in two more Lefry
viii use his legs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-02
VEST

The defalcation of ex-City Treasurer
Gage, of Chicago, is s4s5, ,OOe. As he owns
property of the nominal value of 81 900, 90, it
is probable the city win lose nothing.
The suffering of the settlers in north
western Iowa prove to be much greater than
has been believed. The number of families
is said to be 1000, and of persons over 4, 900,
who are actually suffering from want of food
in this land of plenty
The great iron bridge of the Chicago,
Alton and ST. Louis railroad company, cross
ng the Mississippi river at Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, was completed last week, and train of
cars Passed over it. This bridge consists of
nine spans, ranging from $50 to 26O feet in
width, the draw of which is 444 feet in length,
the longest in the world. The total length of
the bridge is 2,O25 feet, and in it are 5000
cubic yards rip-rap, $780, 900 cubic yards OF
earth embanlment, and its superstructure is
ali of the bet quality. The whole work has
been done in less than six months, aud was
commenced in July last. dyke half mile
long is being built from the Illinois shore, so
as to insure permanent channel through, the
draw
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-02
GOD PIrY THE POOR.

The wild, rushing winds Of the tempest are sweep
| The frost-fettered land Ike spirit of wrath;
His fierce, icy breath with keen arrows is piercing
The breasts of the wanderers who stand in hi
The earth in atrance lies snshrouded in silence,
The storm-king knocks loudly at window and
The prayer Of the pitifal fervertIy rises
God shelter the homeless and pity the poor
God pity the poor who are weariIy sitting
bare,
From which the last ember's pale hiekering has
Like Hope dying out in the midst of despair;
WEo look on the wide world and see it a desert
Where ripple no waters, no green branches wave,
Who see in the future as dark as the present
No rest but the death-bed, no home but the grave.
God pity the poor when the eddying snoE-drifts
Are whirled by the wrath of the winter wind by,
Like showers of leaves from the paIid star-liiies
That float in the depths of the blue lake on high
For though they are draping the broad earth in
Laauty,
And yelling some flaw in each gossamer fold,
That beauty is naught TO the mother whose children
Are crouching around her in hunger and cold.
God pity the. poor, for the wealthy are often
As hard as the winter and cold as its snow;
While fortune makes sunshine and summer around
They care not for others nor think of their woe !;
Or if from their plenty trihe be given,
,, So doubtingly, grudgiingly, often it's doled
More painful than hunger, more bitter than cold.
God pity the poor for though all men are brothers,
Though all say " Oar Father" not mine, when
they pray
The proud ones OF earth turn aside from the lowly
As if they were fashioned of different clay;
They not in those who in meekness and pa
tience,
Toll, poverty pain, without murmur endure.
The image of Him whose first couch was manger,
Who choose for our sakes to be homeless and
poor.
God pity the poor give them courage and patience
Their trials, temptations and troubles to brave,
And pity the wealthy whose idol is Fortune,
For gold cannot gladden. the gloom of the grave
And this brief life, whether painful pleasant,
To one that is endless but opens the door,
The heart sighs while thinking palace and
hovel;
God pity the wealthy as well as the poor.