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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05
Afarmers' club will soon be organized at

A farmers club will soon be organized at
Cornelius.
The Cottgh1er trotting colt was sold at
Corvallis last week, for $3.50.
The smallpox pest house, near Forest
Grove, was burned down last Monday.
S. L. johnson sold his farm near Forest
Grove last week for $a7 per acre.
Postal Agent Cox has made Central City
a Distributing office for the CoquiIle river.
| The new schooner at Marshfield is nearly
completed, this making the third one built
at Daen & Co.'s yard this summer.
There is good deal of typhoid fever in
Olympia and vicinity.
Tie Home Resort laine, which Is owned
by the Orc Fino Company, is yielding.
large quantities of rich ore, now being
hanled to the mill.
The extension of the Seattle and Walla
Walla railroad to deep water on Duwamish
river is proceeding as fast as the weather
will permit, and will soon be accomplished.
Dallas wants more tenement houses.
Circuit court will convene at Dalles on
the Sth inst.
Nine marriage licenses were issued in
Polk county in October.
Two men named respectively Melier and
Ashley, had an alteration IN a brewery at
Eugene last week, and the former received
severe blow on the head.
Eastern Oregon is not excelled by any
country for general good health, although
there are one or two cases of fever in
ochoco valley. AS general thing ague is
unknown.
The Dalles lAou7atatnecr don't appear to
know that there has recently been an elect
ion in this State, as it does not even give
the returns from its own precinct.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

LEGEND OF THE WALLOwA.-We shall
locate the scene of orr, brief narrative in
Eastern Oregon, in Wallowa Valley. The
valley here mentioned surpasses the finest
conceptions of the Imagination in native
beauty and elemental grandeur. 1t would
seem as though some powerful subterrane-
an force had tossed up huge mountains,
tnclosing a most beautiful valley within
solid walls of rock of massive formation
Cold streams leaping from cleft to cleft,
rush into the valley, forming magnificent
lake near the center and from this lake a
stream winds its devious way through the
valley, like sheet of silver; glistening in
the gorgeous sunlight. Far up the noun
tain side, beneath the protecting shadows
of giant pines, and by the side of crystal
spring, dyyclt an Indian family, one mem
ber of which was a Iiusky maiden. An IN
dian chief paid his addresses to her, Whieh.
were received with favor. One day while
her lover was on the chase the maiden
CHANGED TO stray from her fathers home,
when she was attacked by fierce monster;
she fled to the borders of the lake, still
pursued by the monster ahd being an ex-
cellent swimmer, swan to the center of the
lake, the monster following. where they
both were drowned. The Indian Chief re-
turned, and aseertaining the end OF his be
trothed, went to the lake, where, it is said,
his own body assumed the form OF spirit,
and was seen no more. To-day the Indi-
ans of the valley refuse to eiiter the water
of the lake, as they claim it is sacred to the
two Indian spirits who hover around Its
surface.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

NEW PATENTS. dispatches to
Dewey 6 Co., Patent Agents, S. F., we
receive the following advance list of U. S.
patents granted to Pacific coast inventors
w. 3. Higgins, sewing machine treadle; T..
A. Blake, hydraulic lift dry dock "A. J..
Curtis, fare box q. Gowing, machine tor
filing sewing machine bobbins j. s. Hall,
short thread sewing machine; II. MeInnes,
slotted framing square; J. NJ. Beath, ice
machine E. E. Rice, method and appara-
tus for burning oil; Henry NJ. Stow, brick
pavenent-alI of San Francisco; D. Kend-
ing, Napa, California, gang plow; C. Vie
gand, Virginia City, Nevada, separating
gold from other metalc. z. A. Bushnell,
Oakland, California, knife sharpener and
poiisher; C. F. Keller, Healdsburg, Cali
fornia, combined planter and cHltivator.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

A story is told of Chicago real es--
tate dealer, with whom tie use of busi-
ness terms in his conversation became q
second nature. He was widower with
two children, and one evening among q
party of intimate friends, he laughingly
told young lady she had better marry
hlm-ssWell, | have made mp my mind
to marry no one but widower with six
childreh,n she retorted, ssand yeu lave
but two "Oh !ifthat is ALL" retorted
he, all alive for bargain, 1I'll pay you
on the usual terms-one third down, the
balance in one, two, three and four
years.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Andrew Laws, . young man of Fern
Prairie, back of Vancouver, met with a
serious accident on Friday, the 28th.
He was driving with lady in . two
horse hack: the king-bolt dropped out
and the vehicle went mp before and down
behind. Mr.. Laws thrust his foot for
ward to brace himself, when tue heel OF
his boot caught OH the whiffietree, and
bending his leg over the dashboard,
broke the limb between the knee and
ankle joints. Both were thrown out and
considerably bruised.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05
The America OF ro;-llay

The American mind is beginning
more clearly than ever to understand
that mere form of government, how
ever free, and however wisely devised,
is not alone sufficient to secure the lib
erty, happiness and greatness of pco-
pie that an active public conscience is
the true balance-whcel of free govern
ment; that popular institutios can safely
stand only on strong foundation of
public virtue, and that the morality of -
government must be ruled by the prin-
ciples which in private life formed the
character of a gentleman. It begins to
be felt more strongly than ever that for
the guidance of American affairs in
such a period. a statestnanship is requir--
ed which knows something higher and
better TO do than to iced efficient parts
sans with public plumber; statesman.
ship that has intelligence and knowledge
enough to understand and appreciate the
problems to be solved, and also moral
courage and independence or spirit
enough to treat those problems on their
own merits, and not merely in their res
lation to party advantage. Nor is the
number of those small whose hearts are
full of the sentiment that parties are
well in their way, and useful as long As
they strive for power only to use ID for
the public good, and not merely TO pos
sess it for their own enjoyment; but that,
to serve his country in the best sense,
every true American must recognize his
duties as a patriot first, before he thinks
of any obligation as a partisan Carl
lSclsev.z en- Berlin.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

The British and American garrison
buildings on San Juan Island, compris-
ing a large number of dwellings, store
houses. ontbuildings, offices, etc, will be
sold 81 order of the United States gov
iernlnes,t on the 23d and 24tlr of Novern-
her next. The eales will take pace
separately, and the whole viii have to
be removed by purchasers within thirty
days of date of sale.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Charley Bouregardes having rented his
fine farm on that rapid mountain torrent,
the mighty Calipooia, will probably soon
again be domiciled in our city for the vim
ter. Ciosh.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

COLONIES FOR THE SoUTH.-The
Washington CltronicLe suggests to the
North to immigrate to the South In
colonies. We think this good plan, as
it will enable them to have congenial
compamonship from the time they reach
the South. As to the superior civiliza-
ton accorded to the North, especially
the agricultural element, that is all bosh.
But, we are perfectly willing for them
to think so. Gradually, these Northern
immigrants, whose social position and
general good conduct entitle them to re-
cogn:tion. will be welcomed TO our
hearths and tables, and they will soon
lose their Northern identity, without
ever having cause to apologize for, or re-
gret thier Northern anteeedents. The
truth is, there is deal OF narrow minded
prejudice on both sides, which time and
travel alone viii eradicate. But the
same, difficulty which prevails all over
the world, and none other, will at. first
keep people who have been educated
differently, apart. Inter-communication
will break down these social barriers,
and the people of the North will find
their equals in cultivtion, aesthetic
tatses, and all that pertains to good
breeding among our better classes.
Come on in colonies Columbus (Ga.)
Times.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

WHAr IS SETTLED By THE ONO
ELEc14oF.-Thc New York Grdz11sc
says the Ohio election settles the follow
ing points /. That imitation or any
increase Of the currency is no longer to
be thought of. 2. That both parties will
hereafter be engaged in an honorable
rivalry IS to which shall make the best
record on the subject of administrative
reform and sound currency. B. That
the presidential contest will involve far
higher issues than initiation and rag mon
ey. a. II tptts out Of the way Of Gov.
Tilden all his western competitors, and
makes him as Absolutely master OF the
Democracy of the nation as John Kelly
Is Of Tammany Hail. 5. It gives the
administration renewed backing by the
people, and affords d chance for the.
national Republican party TO carry the,
presidential election if it can prove By It's
works that ii is q better friend Of admin
istrative reform and sound currency than
is the Democratic part
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Del Smith has retired from the granger
business for the winter. and is clerking for
Messrs. Harper & Co.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

1t is reported that one of otlr talented
young lawyers has purchased farm, and
has commenced the erection of new house
upon it. Vel, vat hof itp
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Miss Ella Smith returned to Salem and
school on Monday to the regret of her many
young friends.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Mr.. S. Althouse has lost note of hand
calling for i've hundred dollars, and else
where IN this issrle he warns all parties not
to purchase the note as payment Of the
same has been stopped.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

THE LINK COUNTY COUNCIL Meets at
North Brownsville next Tuesday. A full
attendanbe Of the members is required, as
important business IL to be transacted. AS
tIlero was not q quorum present at the
last meeting, no business was transacted.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

a short time since in Ohio, a number
of farmers, infuriated at the murder of a
young girl in the woods, broke open a
jail, took out of it the man accused OF
the murder, and hanged him. The poor
creatuie was accused by his wife. He
solemnly denied i'll his last moments hay
ing committed the murder, and asserted
that his wife charged him because she
was insanely jealous of him. Now it
turns out that the man was innocent.
Unfortunately he is dead. Unfortunate
ly the men who, in violation of the law,
hanged him, are all murderers, who
ought to be hanged in their turn I'm
fortunately they willall have the unpleas-
ant consciousness for the rest OF their
lives that they are murderers- -nota COM
Portable thought to most of them, prob
ab,y. It is scarcely necessary to pursue
the thought further. Lynch law is
always wrong; but this is not all /; nine
times ont of ten the men who take the
law into their own hands hang the
wrong man.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

AIphonso, King of Naples, had in his
court fool who used to write down in
a book all the follies of the great men
in his time that were at court. The
King having Moor in his household,
sent him to the Levant to buy hor es,
with ten thousald dueats. This the
fool marked in his book as pure piece
of folly. Some time after, the King
called for the book, and found at last
his own name, with the story of the ten
thousand ducats The King, being
somewhat moved, asked the reason why
his name was there. Because . said
the jester, "you have committed piece
of folly to give your money to one you
are never likely to see again." "But
if he does come back again." said the
King, ssand brings me the horses, what
folly is that in me?'' "Why, if ever he
does come back again. replied the fool,
s.Ill blot ont your name, and put in his. !"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

1t has puzzled many people to decide
why the dark wood SO highly valued for
furniture should be called rosewood. Its
color does not look much like o rose, SO
we must look torsome other reason.
Upon asking, we are told that when the
tree is first cut the fresh wood possesses
a very strong, rose-like fragrance; hence
the name. There are halfa dozen or
more different kinds of rosewood trees.
The varieties are found in South America
and the East Indies and neighboring
islands. Sometimes the trees grow so
large that pl,nks four feet broad and ten
in lenght can be cut from one of them.
These broad planks are principally used
to make tops Of piantortes. When grow
ing in the forest, the rosewood tree is
remarkable for It's beauty, but such is its
value In manufactures as an ornamental
wood, that some of the forest where it
once grew abundantly now have scarcely
single specimen. In Madras, the Gov
ernment has prudently had great planta-
tions of this tree set out, in order to
keep up the supply.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

INTEREsTNG-Thos exercises had at the
central district school every Friday after
noon. The scholars look forward to the
day with pleasant anticipations, and teach
ers and scholars vie with each other IN their
attempts to make the occasion interesting
and entertaining to all who may feel in
clined to visit the school ON Friday AFTER
noon. Mr.. Syler has charge of ceremonies
this afternoon, and the patrons of the school
and friends of education generally are in
vited to be present, and in this much at
least show an i1tsrest In the progress of the
school.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

TIE METzLER CHA1R.-One evidence of
tile superiority of the Metzler chair is the
fact that other makers have secured patterns
exactly corresponding to those used by Mr..
Metzger, and in every way attempt to imi-
tate Ills make of chair. The reputation se-
cured by Mr.. Metzler for his chairs, has
been earned by long years of persevering,
honest industry to furnish the public with
an article of furniture which would rank
first in the market, and would be worth all
he asked for it. He is entitled to the full
success which he has achieved, and the
Metzler chair stands to-day the grand en-
bodinent of all there is to be secured by
scientific knowledge and massive mechani-
cal skin and ingenuity as applied to the
creation of an Indispensable article of the
household economy, with raw hide bottoms.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Mr.. sheldon had one OF has legs badly
hurt at the Salem mills on Friday lnst.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05
Home Interests.
Oregon,s EducationaI- frOgress.


This State is unsurpassed In educational
zeal and practical effort, and, considering
the many disadvantages incident to so new
a State, her progress is remarkable. The
people seem fully alive to the advantages
of the common school system, and they con-
tribute to its support with degree Of good
will and liberality seldom equaled. Fine
school buildings are springing up all over
the State, first class teachers are being call
ed to the field from other States, and the
indications everywhere give promise lot
continued progress and ultimate honor to
the State.
To obviate the necessity fsending abroad
for teachers, normal schools are very much
needed. But this want can not long be
felt, as such schools will soon be established.
All the larger towns, and even those of the
most recently settled portions of the State,
are supplied with elegant and commodious
school buildings and efficient teachers. The
State Superintendent spends a large pro-
portion of his time visiting schools, labor
ing in institutes, ana lccturing to the people,
and is everywhere inftlsing new life into
the system, and stimulating the people to
more earnest effort. Oregon is destined
soon to occupy very high educational
rand. j. L. r.
MEETING OF ENGINE COMPANY NO. 3.
Linn Fire Co. No. , met ut their hall on
Monday night, the regular monthly meet
ing. The proper committee reported a
communication from the Clapp s. Jones
Manufacturing Co., offering 4 No. steam
fire engine of their make. finished in first
class style, with hose cart and 500 feet of y
hose, at a lower figure than any other of
the manufacturers of steam engines with
whom the committee communicated. The
offer WAS accepted unanimously by the Co.,
and the committee on incorporation report
ing that they had filed articles ineorporat-
ing Linn Engine Co. No. 2, capital stock
81, ,00o, the stock book was opened at once.
and in a few minutes sixty shares ($G0o.00)
were subscribed by members of the Com
pany, which will be increased, doubtless,
to 200 shares, or half the capital stock, dur
ing the present week, by members of the
Company alone, leaving two hundred shares
to be subscribed for by our citizens and the
city. Four thousand dollars will buy the
steamer and apparatus, leaving sufficient
surplus, it is believed, to pay the freight
from the factory to this city. That the
amount can and will be secured in a short
time is a foregone conclusion, and in the
course of a few weeks No. IS will be in
possession of one OF the neatest and at the
same lime most effective engines of its
class on the Pacific coast. 'Ror for the
Twosters and their new steamer.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05
p. G. HARPER q CO.,
Raising ana Moving Buildings.

UTE THE UNDERSIGNED BEG LEAVE TO
w announce the citizens of Albany and
surrounding country that. having supplied eur
selves With the necessary machinery for rails
times to receive orders for such work, which
we will do in short order at lowest rates. We
guarantee entire satisfaction in all work under
taken by
Orders left at the REGISTER Office promptly
AIba. ai1Ssa'su -. Apply 0nANrY, ALLEN co.
4--' = Or, April 28s7s75 asv7
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05

Surprising power of ssdnrance "a tattle-
drover who had one ear calS of by the IItli-
ans got mp and waiked OF on the other one.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-05
The yIis1nIgnt SUI, i. norway.

THE long day dawns 2 But the sun,
away in the northwest, is still shining
brightly. 1t is eleven o'clock by our
Geneva watch. Is the sun really going
to sit up all night? Hepours uniyer-
sal flood of what seems to he light with
out heat-a genial warmth like that of
a midwillter sun at home, shining
through south window, when the mer-
curry out of doors stands at zero at noon.
Everything is bright, however; like a
home landscape inc Connecticut on some
waning but clear October afternoon an
hour before sunset. The light of day
Eliminates the ragged cliffs Of the wild
north CAPE and the desolate shores of the
Artic ocean. Everything is still save
the solemn plash of the waves, far be-
low upon the rocks The sun swings
still further into the north, and sinks a
little lower The time is 11:40. We
wait to see the king of day shining Sc
renely at midnight; and we have not
long to wait. Slowly he dips down to-
ward the ocean waves, now due north,
as if he were sinking into the ocean, on
the eastern shore of remote, invisible,
and unyisited Spitzbergen. But the
hour of twelve is here, and the sun does
not set. His entire disk rests broadly
over the northern sea rs we sometimes
see it at home few minutes before SUM-
set. We find he has still good deal
of heat-enough to burn hole ID our
dresses by the aid OF a sunglass. That
is the proper thing to do for all ladies
who go to North Cape. An hour later
and the sun has very perceptibly risen
again. He has ssset into sunrise,o and
he now swings slowly upward as if ris-
ing out of point east of northeast.
There is fresh breath of air
.'For a breeze of the morning moves,''
And ere long we feel it to be really morn
ing-bnt how, we cannot quite under
stand, for there las been no night, no
loss of sun for moment. It is altogeth-
er queer sensation, and an experience
worth having We found that, wholly
disregarding the sun, the hens all went
to roost III Norway just about seven
o'clock p. NJ. all through June, though
the sun was five hours high, and the
world was "as light as cork" and the
people followed their example. They
have no curtains to their windows (I sup
pose such thing as a burglar or even a
vulgar intruder, is unknown among
those Norway hills and vales), odd
enough il seemed to ,us, riding by at
nine o'clock P. NJ. to see, through the
windows, the people all abed and fast
asleep-and the sun shining brightly
more than two hours before his time to
set.
, 1875-10-17
THE TRUE CHICAGO.


Scenes on the Streets When the Toll
ers Start for Rome.
Visitors to our city have not seen it till the7
have stroled through its streets after the stroke
Of in the evening. They may have carefully
inspected the outside Of the ehell inhabited bV
the animal called Chicago but the architecture
and the pavetnents are not the creature ITSELF
Neither is the busy bustline life Oh the streets.
IN the main, her own. The hurrying thropes
that jostle each other On the sidewalks and peo-
pie the horse-cars through the business hours are
nada up. in large part, OF strangers and soiourn-
ers of day. The Ohicagoau proper is, at those
hours, as general thing, prisoner within
doors. He ia at his Office desk, behind the bank
counter, skipping among aisIes Of merchandise,
or buBy at some one Of Thousand mechanical
empioyments that make the workshops and
manufactures in every block Of this metropolis
hum with human activity.
Long before the ordinary visitor has at his
hotel discussed his omelet and coffee over his
morning TRIBUNE, Chicago
WORKING CH1CAuo,-
has bolted breakfast, and on it's manifold ,e1s
and by vehicles Of more than manifold yarietr
has reached the central districts, where ade and
daily toll. There through the livelonr dav tha
toler is as safe from the gaze Of the idly curiona
~ ls the coral insect in it's workshop cell. MT
that these scenes Of industry are iu&ccessibfe To
those uho desire to peep in upon them, but who
would undertake the taak Of obtaining eyeu a
glance At tee interior Of the ten thousand
hi1es Of haudlcrafs that are buzzlng with lila
under almost eva1y roof outside Of the resident
qnarters5 No directory will guide You to ana
hundredth part Of them, no Policeman can sno-
'gast more than few Of the most noted. and
our Citizens themselves will prove a. i9norant,