The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
POLITICAL NOTES.


THE Denver Democrat nominates
Thomas A. Hendricks for the next
President.
THE story is going the rounds that
Ben. Buffers mother intended him for
the ministry.
The Binghamton IN. " Democrat
hoists the name of Samuel j. Tilden
for President in 1876.
Ex-CoNaREssMAN PETERS, of Maine,
appears to contest the claims OF HAM
lin for the Senatorship.
PARsoN BRowNnow will give the whole
of his attention to editing the Knoxville
Wing after the 4th of March.
ANDY JOHNSON is working hard for
the Tennessee Senatorship, and his
chances are classed fair to middling.
THE Albany Express nominates Ly-
man Tremaine as the Republican can
didate for Senator from New York.
THE State Temperance Alliance of
California has determined upon the es-
tablishment of a cold water political
party.
CHICAGO Tribune "Kelley has been
threatening to leave the Republican
party, but has succeeded in soaring
nobody. Nobody sobs, Sweet VIII
Lam, stay"
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND is no
longer connected with the Chicago
Tribune, and will write no more under
the signature So Gath"
Gov. BRADLEY, of Nevada, did keep
his ink" In q jug under the table until
his clerk got to drinking it, and now
his excellency carries a fiat bottle in
his coat.
POLAND used to be "t the Hon. Judge
Poland" Then they got him to
sc Judge Poland" then to Poland"
and now his neighbors speak of him as
sold Pole, who got so badly waxed." I"
Two men named Flood and O'Brien,
by rises in mining stocks, are richer
than Jones or Sharon. Unless Nevada
can make room for two more Senators,
Jones and Sharon had better step down
and out without making any fuss over it.
Gov. HENDRICKS, of Indiana, thinks
that Mr.. Voorhees, has developed sur
prising strength in the Senatorial con-
test, but declines to prophecy as to the
result. He is satisfied that the contro-
versy will be settled in the caucus, thus
avoiding all danger of producing inhar-
monious feeling in the party. Our
hard for victory to fritter it away in
quarrels."
In one of the wards of Worcester,
Mass, a husband and wife were the
opposing candidates for the School
Committee. The lady was elected by a
large majority. She went home that
evening feeling far from happy, and
when asked to explain her unexpected
| depression of spirits, frankly said Sc It
was a dreadful modification to John,
and I don't believe he'll ever call me his
'calla lilly again
CoLoRED men who are elected to Con
| gress sometimes forget the bond OF
| sympathy that theoretically should
exist between men of their color.
Samuel Lee, q colored member of the
Capital police at Washington, rar
sgainst Joseph r. Rainey in the First
South Carolina District for the Forty.
fourth Congress. Rainey was elected
and few days ago Lee was notified by
Sergeant alarms Ordway that Rainey
had fled with him protest against his
remaining longer on the police force.
THE New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes EFT
really looks as though Horatio Sey
mour would persist in refusing to take
the seat in the Federal Senate, which
will be at his disposal when the State
Legislature meets. There are thret
prominent politicians now spoken of al
Democratic candidates for the place
Charles O'Conor, of this city; Franci.
Kiernan, of Utica, and Henry G. Muir
ply, of Brooklyn. It is rather remark
able that all of these three Senatoria.
candidates are Roman Catholics.