The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12
Pacific SIopers.


boys, ranging in age from II to 20
years. sons of citizens of Vancouver,
are kept ont of mischief and are rem
dering society a real service by ac-
cepting employment at the salmon
fisheries down the Columbia. A boy
who is skillful and industrious can
earn all the way from $35 to $50 per
month.
For the first time i'm several years
the city treasurer of Vancouver has
had to endorse warrants drawn on the
treasury mot pail for the want of
funds. y The depleted state of the
municipal exchequer is due to the
large drafts made upon it TO satisfy
the demands of Messrs. Britton.
Gray s. Drummond. of Washington,
D. c.. the city's attorneys in the
townsite controversy.
The Lewiston. Idaho, paper SAYS:
1.-THE recent cold snap has killed
nearly all the peach trees in this sec
ton of the country. All the black
berry bushes are also frozen down to
the ground. and the pear and plum
trees have suffered considerably. This
is great misfortune, as most of the
orchards were just beginning to be
profitable to the owners and lux
ury 10 fruit eaters.
The. Bozeman (Montanal Times says
that am expedition TO prospect and
settle about the Big Horn will leave
| there in March or April following.
E. B. Way. commander of a former
expedition to the Yellowstone, will
take charge of the party. Each one
| will secure his own olitfit-tlree
| months provisions and 400 rounds of
| ammunition. with pack animal for
transportation.
Agent-for-roving- bands I n d i a II 5
Brown, has received q letter from the
| Indian Bureau. Washington, con-
corning Indians in Ciatsop and Tilia-
NOOK counties who have never been
treated with. Hon. r. Mallory had
written on about these Indians and
complaining of their presence there.
The department instructs Agent
Brown TO look them up and see that
they are properly cared for on some
reservation.
Quoting some rather i'll natured
words from an Eastern Oregon paper
against the Webfeet. the Lewiston
don't like the Webfeet; Eastern
and Northern Idaho don't like South
ern Idaho. What we want is new
Territory. formed out OF Eastern
Oregon. Eastern Washington and
Northern Idaho. The plan may moi
be practicable. but the Interests oi
these sections cannot better be served
than by its consumnation- -
The following story is told by a
contemporary "A Clergyman, seeing
| a man come iuto church after the
sermon had begun, stopped his dis
course, and remarked to him, .-GlaC
to see you. sir; come in; Away:
glad to see those here late who cam
come early. Tie man thus address
ed, i'm the presence of an astonisheC
: congregation, promptly responded
Thank You; would you favor m,
| | with the text. -
ri People who object to elaborat,
weddings should GO to Iowa. where
marriage was recently celebrate.
with the following brief ceremony =
! The happy pair were told to join thei
| right hands, and were ti.en asked
. do you want one anothers - Bot
: replied, Yes, .sWen, then, hav,
; one another and the couple wer
: man and wife.
, s.My real number Is six. but M
? hand will stand squeezing. . Is wiia
she said to the young Inan at tn
glove counter. And the great tl1icl
), headed lunatic got her a pair of fiv
e and half gloves without finding OF
4 | how much squeezing her hand wouI
bear. We would have worked q
. that Job an hour. but she should hay
had an exact Mt.
= The Tacoma Tribune says: TT
n American ship Orient, Of IsSO0 toI
measurnienf. arrived at Ctsalady frou
San Francisco last Friday. She
9 loading spars for Cork. in the Unite
r Kingdom Of Great Britain aud II,
- land. The Orient Is one of the large
ships That ever loaded on Pug
Sound; The Gnen P0c.Gc OF ], 100 fOs
. being one. and the .Eerfmfdk TshODsi
s0a Of 1880 tons the ether. Utsalad
also loaded the Poetic and ThompsOI
and now adds the Orient to her psetel
sions as to the port to which tire
r deckers have to go for cargoes-
Is The Courier says. s-Olympia al
- al the Upper Sound ara well suppl.
e in mail service now. and they kllo
how to appreciate it, after the taS
given them last fall OF being len o
rt in the cold. The regular mail CO
- tract calls for three trips wee
J. which are promptly perfoEsnel. 81
0sGH NApt- w ft&alks 4& Akse EETAs
q gives us nm extra one for which
he asks and gets no pay except the than
n OF scores who are greatly acrousan
s. dated by his generous aCfEcu. ]
makes two trips per week aud CARR
p< the mails both tiHes, although
ch Contraet only requires him to take
ne oslce. "
a stock man informs tie Wa
Walla Stgsesss0a that in ETalla Wa
&c valley there Is not 30 cons Of hay i
% sale. Every thing has been eaten
q slick and clean. and unless the srsri
lH grass puts Ia an early appearances ex
ssk | pee as1fmnss win hare 20 30 on S1,s