The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
LATE TEr.EGRAprrrc.NEMs.

AhiIS nave TcTOfleQ IN 1aVOf OIL a Dill
relnbu,sing Oregon for the Modoc war
expenditure in the sum of a., ,637
Everett Chamberlin, an eminent jour
naiisf of Chicago. died at Jacksonville,
Fla. on the 18th, where lie was temporarily
residing for his health.
A snowfall of from eight to ten inches
IN New Hampshire on the night of the 20th,
naue the roads impossible and greatly
delayed tI..ins.
At Portland. Maine. considerable ex-
element existed on the Goth, over the
discovery that counterfeit bonds of the
Leeds 4 Farmington Railroad were in
circulation. About 5000 had been dis
covered, but the full amount WAS un-
known.
On the evening of the 2lst, at Baltimore,
Nd, an immense Catholic Temperance
demonstration was held at Maryland In
stitute, Father Didier administering the
pledge to three hundred members of the
excitement seen IN Baltimore since Father
Mathews visit.
Senator Brownlow has purchased half
interest in the Knoxville Dai yand Weekly
Chronicle, which will hereafter be known
as the Whig and Chronicle. Brownlow
will be Chief Editor, of course.
Ohio Republicans in Washington, re-
0lSin viii he ehs ihe aening of fhe Preoiden ~
tial campaign of 1876, met at the residence
of Secretary Delano, and after an inter
early opening of q vigorous. aggressive
campaign in Ohio. Commissioners were
appointed to cooperate with the State ex-
ecutlye committee at Columbus, to pre-
pare for the canvass.
Germany is worked up in regard TO
the causes of her people emigrating, and
stop TO it,. 1t is proposed, rs an induce
ment for her people to remain at home,
that facilities be afforded for the acquir-
ing of small estates. and that the action Of
emigration agents, paid by trans-atlantic
governments, be stTenuously opposed.
The Madrid, Spain, PtRafc. asserts that
the Indemnity to be paid by Spain to the
relatives of American victims of the
Tirginitts affair, has been fixed at $s4.03
and that the convention will be signed
| Immediately upon Cushing's prese nting
his credentials to the new government.
On the goth inst, by an explosion Mt the
safety fuse works at Redraths, Cornwall,
England, five girls were killed, and many
| miraculous escapes were made.
John Mitchell has again announced him.
| self as a candidate for Parliament from
TinpeInry, and the prospect is that he
are irfepressible, and are bound to be
| heard.
Advices from Zanzebar report that a
| feet of British men-ofwar bombarded and
| captured Fort Momhazique, in the island
| of Mo1nbaz, or the coast of Africa. The
| engagement lasted five hours, and seven
| teen of the garrison were killed and fifty
| wounded. Two slave ships were captured
with 800 slaves on board.
Daniel Hassett, young Irishman of
| Chicago. was arrested on the 10Th, for as
\
made a sworn statement that his father
| killed a man about three years ago, chop
bar Barrel a and % threw @ Il % into the the e riSer; also
! that he murdered a man in Paris, Ohio, in
1854. The mutliated body of a man was
| found in the river about three years since,
| but little faith Is placed in the boys state
| ment.
| A fire at Believe, Ohio, on the e2d de-
stroyed three houses. Loss, $4,000; In
| suTance. 5000.
A match game of billiards, played in
| New York on the ed, for 1000 and the
! championship of the world, between
| Vlgnaux and Rulolph, was won by Vign-
aux---score, 600 to $50. The game was
| Shall carom.
Chinese fanatics have destroyed the
| telegraph line between Foo Chow and
| Annoy.
Sir Charles LyeIl, the eminent English
geologlst, died in London on the 22d,
aged IS.
The I'D was generally observed in New
,n oy Il SeFFefs Fee, staie and 9f
offices, firing saIutts. ringing chimes,
services in the churches, etc. AT Nash
pended. and fully 25,00o people took part
in the celebration Cannon were fire1, a
thousand flags were displayed, and federal,
each other in expression of sentiment,
ignoring past differences and fully recog-
niZing united nation. The Legation OF
the United States and many private resi-
dences of Americans in Paris, France,
were decorated with flags in honor of the
day. and Minister washburu gave a BAN
Quet in the evening.
The large glue factory of Wahl Bros
! Chicago, was burned on the ed. Loss
$4,000: insurance, 80, coo. Three hun.
dred men thrown ont of employment
From Pittsbur@, under date of Feb. 23d
| we have this: Ernest Ortwein, who. on
| the night of the 18th of April last murder
| ed John Hamnett, his wife, two little
and then burned his house TO conceal the
crime. was hanged in The Jail yard af moor
to-day in the presence of the officers OF
| quietly and with resignation.
The brig j. b. Ford, just fren Yokohama
cisco, with smallpox on board.
The stage from San Diego to Julian
California, on the night of the 22d, was
robbed. Wells. Fargo Co.'S treasure box
containing $2,0O0, was taken. The rob
Import taxes and the internal revenu,
on some articles is to be increased, ant
the income tax is to be restored Try tn,
new bill; tax of three per cent. is to b
collected .,o ooo on all insomes between zee SOC
cent.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
On the Goth inst. in the Senate. durin.
ton bill, Mitchell submitted an amend
nent authorizing the Secretary of tn
. | Interior to remove all bands of Indian
, | now located upon the Alsea and Siletz In
dian reservation in Oregon 10 n new reSel
fR1lOn TWO miles south OF SlletZ. III
| amendment was amended so as TO provid
| that such Indians shall not be removes
from their present reservation withou
their consent previously obtained, and a
amended was agreed to. An amendmen
in committee. appropriating $4,000 70
payment for improvements of settlers o.
Stewart endeavored to get in an amend
' ment appropriating twenty thousan
: dollars for general and incidental expense
of Piute reservation in southern Nevad
: | and $I5o, 600 for Walkers River and Pyra
mid Lake reservations, and reducin
the Piute reservation of south-eaSfer
: | Nevada to one thousand acres: but the
= were ruled out on points of order
Spencer, of Alabamy. introduced a bi
authorizing the appointment of CON
Alaska, after the adjournment of the pr
y sent Congress to inquire into the nunbe
of fur seals killed on the islands of Sair
number could be killed without jeopart
izing the perpetuation of fisheries, an
I for other purposes. Referred to the con
/ mittee of commerce.
1 Stewart has introduced a bill to establis
post route between Panamint and Il
= dependence, California.
= claims reported against passing the sp
8 cial law for the relief of A. r: jackson an
others, dispossessed of lands in Soian
county, Cal. which they parchased froi
the q. s., by reason of the subsequeI
B confirmation of another title based Q
# the attention of tho public lands cor
mitfee to the matter, in order TO consid'
? whether any general law should be e
. | acted 10 cover all such cases.
> The Senate claims committee repo
o adversely on Capt. Samuel Adams clai
for COMPENSATION for services in expI0
8 ing Colorado river. They say they we
!. rendered without authority of the go
. ernment and strongly intimate they we
l. of no particular value.
The credentials of Andrew JohnsO
= Senator from Tennessee, were presents
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