The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-03-14

Il The Metropolitan Minstrels are bill.
: ed for an entertainment at Vancouver.
Tie merchants and hotel-keepers al
Snohomish City have quit taking jaw.
bone for goods and board. KY
A farm two miles below Salem was
sold at administrators sale few days
AGO for $1S 30 per acre.. The farm
contained about three hundred. acres.
A man plowed up ATTY rattlesnakes
in Douglas county one day last week.
He killed forty OF them, and ten got
away. 'Twas'nt a good day for
snakes, either. uha,iM 5laa
A Teachers Institute, for Douglas
county, was held In Roseburg last
week. But few teachers were present,
land the proceedings were brief but
interesting. ie
Three different parties have been en-
gagged In the neighborhood Of Vancou-
Yer during the Winter In getting out
hoop poles for the San Francisco
! market. Is
Extensive preparations are making
for the logging business on Snohomish
river. W. T., this Spring. Work has
already been commenced in several
camps. f.,ye K ..l ..4
/ The little daughter of A. E. Mabie.
Of Olympia, has partially recovered
from a severe attack OF typhoid fever,
but her reason Is entirely dethroned--
her mind Is a perfect blank. a
The laws of Washington Territory
will be ready for distribution in about
five weeks. They will form a very
large volume, and that is the reason
of the delay in getting them ready.
Over 500 pages are already printed.
AT Yuba City on the 9Th, in the case
Of James Leach who killed Horace
Rause at Nicolaus last November, the
jury brought In a verdict Of murder In
the second degree.
AT the Methodist Church In Eugene
on the evening of the LIST. the minister
requested all who felt that they needed
the prayers OF the righteous, to rise to
their feet. The load of sin was actu-
ally SO great, that the floor gave way.
No one hurt. far .r. a,,
The recent earthquake shock in
Sierra County. California, opened a
| crack at HOwland Flat more than a
| thousand feet long, and In some places
four inches wide at the surface and
ten feet deep In the snow, which is
almost as solid Ms Ice and twelve feet
deep. ' N'Tf
The Vancouver Register says: We
are informed that the farmers Of Mill
Plain have about completed their
spring sowing. and that crop prospects
are very favorable. Several farmers
! on this plain have from one to seven
hundred acres under cultivation.
The Polk County paper speaks as
follows. ut is a noticeable fact that
last Wednesday, for the first time in
the history of the town, that County
Convention was held here without
there being single drunk to be seen
on the Streets !iq ~
At Bakersfield, On the afternoon of
the 9th; the trial off. w. Smith, for
Che murder Of Frank Howard last
May, was concluded. After a session
Of three hours, the verdict Of murder
infthe second degree was found. SEN
tehce next Monday. ,al' " ana
9s.The name Of the brakeman killed
near Humboldt Wells on the 9th, was
AL. Bixley. he was caught and held
fast in the wreck BY both legs, with
portion Of the wreck jammed in his
abdomen. The other train hands were
Unable to extricate or remove the
timbers holding him fast, and in this
condition he lived three hours begging
his friends to Eill lIitn and put him oNt |
Of his misery. 9e n a'g 'sl
The following are the postal changes
ordered for the Pacific Coast: Offices |
established Alcatraz, San Francisco |
County, California, Amasa Bushnell
Postmaster !; junction HoIlse, Las
sen Comfy, California: William E. |
Jones, Postmaster: Patha, Walla |
Walla County, W. T., A. j. Favor, |
Postmaster. Name changed-Big |
Meadows, Plunas Co... California, to |
PnttvilIe. Postmasters appointed
P. Hamilton, Marion, Marion County, !
Oregon John Brlscoe, OysteryiIIe, |
Pacific County, W.T.. ny |
{ Some thieves have stolen 500, head !
of sheep from Messrs. Jones 8 Nixon !
of Douglas county, since last Novenl-
Der. This might be called sheep |
stealing extraordinary. The Pldin-
dealer says; 1.-The most remarkable
feature is that most all the sheep are
marked and branded three or four
different ways, and could be easily
identified These gentlemen have
offered $500 reward for the recovery I
Of the sheep and arrest Of the guilty. |
parties" !"
n THIS from Marion County: The,
Republican Central Committee for
Marion, County met Saturday. AZ So. /
lem. and agreed upon u call fora COull-
" Convention Ia accordance with the |
recommendation Df the State Central |