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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02
a FREwcH SUICIDE.

The last reported French suicide is
sprightly. A young man went to q first
class restaurant and ordered big dinner
for two, himself and a lady. He said
the lady would come directly, The din
ner hour passed and no lady came. He
ate the dinner for two with good relish,
and drank several bottles of vine, and
enjoyed himself as much as q man can
when he is hungry and has doublelmeal
spread before him But no lady an
peared When he HID made. 4 clean
sweep of the festive board, he asked the
waiter for pen, ink and paper, as he
wished to write a letter. Soon after the
report Of q pistol was heard, and the
waiter. entering the cabinet, found the
young man lying on a sofa bleeding from
hole between his eyes. The lady did
not come. and he could not wait for her
any longer. He died. He was young
man of good position in his fathers es-
tabhAhment, but no positi6n in certain
lady's heart, and so he made an end of
his disappo
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.AFrER THE HERpIor.

The following account is given of the
reception of the verdict of Sc Not guilty
by Muybridgein his trial for the murder
of Harry Larkyns in California recently /:
g At the sound of the last momentous
words q convulsive gasp escaped the
prisoners lips, and he sank forward from
his chair The mental and nervous ten
sion that had sustained him for days of
uncertain fate was removed In an instant,
and he became rs helpless as a newborn
babe. Mr.. Pendegast caught him In his
arms and thus prevented his falling to
the floor, but his body was limb as a wet
cloth. His emotion became convulsive
and frightful.s His eyes were CLASSY, his
jaws set and his face hvid. The veins of
his hands and forehead swelled out Like
whipcord. He moaned and wept con-
vulsively, but uttered no word of pain or
rejoicing. Such display of overpower-
ing emotion has seldom, if ever, been
Witnessed in a court of justice. The
foodgates of feeling seemed suddenly to
have been lifted and the long pent-up
torrent of emotion to have burst upon
the man, sweeping all before it. He
rocked to and fro in his chair. His face
was absolutely horrifying In its contor-
ions as convulsion succeeded convulsion.
The Judge discharged the jury and
hastily left the courtroom unable to bear
the sight, and it became necessary to re-
call him subsequently to finish the pro-
ceedings. The clerk hid his face in his
handkerchief, while the prosecuting at
torney and some Of, the jurors hurried
away to svoid the spectacle. Others
gathered around to calm the prisoner,
and all of them were moved to tears -
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and suggestive. Its attempts at dramatic
effects are detestable. A daily procession
to the courtroom; an assignment of parts
and of places among the spectators; a
scenic display of entrance and of exit;
an attempt at floral adornment ghastly in
its inappropriateness a lawyer, fresh
from the defense of the most consplcu-
Gus crimes of the century against
public morals, himself member of the
Plymouth congregation, the confidant
and counsel of Mr. Beecher in the de-
tense; the introduction of women to
listen day after day to the disgusting de-
tails of the testimony; and, to crown all,
the almost incredible intrusion Of Mrs.
Tilton upon the scene to hearithe re-
counting of her shame; surely there
could not he anything in the remotest
degree resembling this in any Christian
community outside of Brooklyn. We
need add no word of elaboration to this
picture.
And all this is the fruit of Mr.. Beech
er's thirty years preaching. These are
the characters and this is the community
that it has created. We do not affirm,
of course, that there are not good men
| and good women in and of it. But may
it not arouse reflection as to the effect of
sensational sermonizing? That Mr..
Beecher has said much that is good we
do not deny. That there has been that
in his preaching which has made many
men better will not be questioned. But
the great body of men and women have
been drawn there to witness scenic eff
fects, to be delighted by drapatic points,
in which the charm of oratory and of act
ing was to entrance their senses. And
now we have the outcome of it all. With
the spectacle of Plymouth Church, and
i of that Brooklyn society IN which il
forms a part, before us, there is no re-
sisting the belief that its results have
been greatly more for evil than for good.
It has eliminated In the most monstrous
and deplorable scandal that the nation
has ever known, in which, however the
guilt or, the innocence may be distrib
uted, no one of the actors can begin tc
compensate for titlle of the evil that
has been wrought to society. And it has
| given to Brooklyn an unenviable identity
as city whose manners, whose morals
whose methods of life are a scofing tc
| the thoughtless and source of mortif
cation and sorrow to the better class OF
men and women everywhere.
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WHAr Is TILE. usEa

Pay no attention TO ISLANDERS or gossip
mongers. Keep straight In your course,
and let their backbitings die the death of
neglect. What is the use Of lying awake
at night, brooding over the remarks of
some false friend, that runs through
your brain like forked lightning
What's the use of fretting over a piece
of gossip that has been set afloat to your
disadvantage by some meddlesome busy
body who has more time than character?
These things can't possibly injure you,
unless indeed you take notice of them, and
in combating them give them character
and standing. If what is said about you
is true, set yourself right at once If it is
false, let it go for what it will fetch. If
bee stings you would you go to the
hive and destroy it n Would not thou
sand come upon you2 1t is wisdom to
say little respecting the injuries You
have received. We are generally losers
in the end if we stop to refute all back
bitings and gossipings we may hear by
the way. They are annoying, it is true,
but not dangerous, so long as we do not
stop to expostulate and scold. Our
characters are formed and sustained by
ourselves, and by our own actions and
purposes, and not by others. Let us al
ways bear in mind that " calumniators
may usually be trusted to time and the
slow but steady justice of public,
orinion -
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MExIcAN RAILROADS.

The works of peace now happily en-
gage Mexico, and the first of these m ma
tional Importance is railroads. There is
now only about 800 miles of railway In
the country, the principal line being from
Vera Cruz to the capital. Thisis nowto be
prolonged northwestward to the Pacific,
as the Central railroad and its construc-
ton is ID the hands of a British Mexican
company. At Leon, $50 miles from
Mexico, the international railroad VIII
branch off to the northeast for Texas.
Within three months after the compile
ton of the Central to Leon, the CON
struction of the latteri is to begin at both
ends. usldsr the English company, of
which Edward Lee Plumb is the head.
The international has subsidy Of $15,-
900 mile from the government, and
rlust be completed within six years. hu
win receive heavy premiums for every
year Of earlier completion. FEom this
side the distances are as follows From
Rockdale, the present terminus Of the
international 30 Texas, to Austin. 50
miles; from AUSTIN, via San Antonio, to
Laredo, on the Bio Grande. 235 miles
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MURDER H-11L OUT.

4 murder committed three years ago,
at Adrianople, has lately been brought
to light under singular circumstances.
The victim was q Cretan trader, who
came to seek his fortunes at Adrianople,
bringing with him a capital of 9S00. in
stead, however, of gaining fortune
with this amount, it cost him his life,
for it tempted the keeper of khan
where he lodged, named Yovantcho, to
plan his assassination. Yovaatcho, who
was of a confding nature, impaired this
scheme to two intimate friends and to
his servant, who readily entered into the
spirit of the affair. The Cretan trader
was, therefore, invited to O supper,
which was served in the Bulgarian
school, where, having been Hospitality
piled with wine till he became drunk, he
was garroted and strangled. His body
was then pitched into a well, and thus
closed the evenings entertainment
The murdered man had a son who,
strange to say, observing the mysterious
disappearance of his father, gave notice
of the fact to the police but as is not
uncommon in murder cases even in this
country, even sc the most active and intel
igent" officers of the force failed to dis
cover the culprits. The matter was soon
forgotten, and probably would have re-
manned forever buried In oblivion but
that Yovantcho's servant the other day
killed man in tavern, andwas arrested.
For some time his master sent him daily
supply of luxuries not to be found In
the prison bill of fare, but at last inpru-
IDENTIFY discontinued this delicate atten-
ton. The imprisoned servant grieved at
his masters ingratitude, told to the vail
the story of the murder in which he had
borne an humble part. The weH of the
Bulgarian cemetery. was Immediately
emptied and searched the bones and
some of the clothing of the missing Gre
tan trader were discovered. Yovantcho
and his two friends were arrested they
are now ON their triad, and some interest
ing reve1ations are expected touching the
fate of other persons besides the trader
who have at various times g mysteriously
disappeared. Pail Mall Gazette.
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4 DONKEY ArrAcKED By RATS

Il DONKEY ATTACKED BY RATS.
The Pail Mall Gazette says f: t' While
the question of vivisection Of animals is
under consideration, it would, to say the
least, be only good taste for animals to
refrain as far as possible from vivisecting
each other. Some rats IN the county of
Durham appear, according to the Man
chester Examiner, to have treated an
unfortunate donkey the other day with
unnecessary cruelty. The donkey, which
belonged to a man named Newton, living
near Shotley Bridge, was kept IN an out
house infested by rats. Hearing an un-
usual noise in the night, Mr.. Newton
procured lantern and entered the sta
BILE, when he was grieved and surprised
to see large number of rats elinging to
the donkey, which was almost dead, the
flesh on it's back, from the neck to the
tad, having been completely devoured.
The donkey could hardly have Jared
worse In the hands of surgeons, and if,
as is to be hoped, it RECEIVERS the injuries
it has received, its owner will act wisely
and mercifully by either destroying the
rats or the donkey. It Is evident that
they cannot with comfort to the latter
continue to occupy the same stable"
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from the frontier to Leon, 600 miles );
from Leon to Mexico, $50 miles; whole
distance to- be built, 1,165 miles. The
distance of st. Louis from the Mexican
capital will be little less than 2,OOO
miles, and of Chicago $500 miles.
Mexico has a population of 225, 1000,
Queretaro, 47,ooo; Leon, the junction,
100, 900, and the international viii pass
through nine States with q present popu-
lation of 8, 3,250,000.
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.PRoFE.ssroN4L IycoMEs.-

Some one has been guessing at and
gossiping about the moneyed reward of
weI-known professional men. Charles
O'Conor, it is said, has larger income
from his practice than any lawyer in
America the Jumel case alone bringing
him million and a quarter In money.
Sir Roundell Palmer, who was opposed
TO Evarts at Geneva, makes $3.50. .000 O.
year, which is more than Evarts' average
receipts for his New York practice. For
defending johnson, Evarts received
SIC, COO, and it is not thought that he
win be paid greater sum for worrying
TiIton. Mr.. Sergeant BalIantine, of the
London bar, who has gone to India to
defend the Guicowar of BarGlora In q
prosecution for murder, gets $4,000 for
tnis case alone. Beach, Of TTlton's
counsel, is thought to be working Tor q
contingent fee. Jeremiah Black is said
10 trouble himself naore about his case
than his fee, preferring TO win and get
nothing than 10 lose and be paid liberal
II. Great actors are as well remunerated
as great lawyers. Booth has made his
80, 900 q month. Jefferson has even
passed this sum In the sSme time. It is
thought that IN season Of forty weeks
Clara Morris viii make SIC, 900, while.
Charlotte Cushman's lingering fareveIls
are kind of dramatic bonanza. Bduci-
cauIt, between his royalty as playwright
and his skill as play-actor, is pocketing
$4,000 every week at Wallack's.. Great
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4 roorHLEss PEOPLE.

Terrible times in Warrentop, Va,
are depicted by the Sentinel. 1t ap-
pears that few weeks ago a dentist
came to that town and advertised that
he would remove all of persons teeth
for 81 and insert new set for $40, be-
sides giving six months credit. The
Warrenton people are very fond of
bargains, so there was a rush for the
dentists at once. He was busy for two,
months pulling teeth, and at the end of
that time half the people had empty
gums, and bone-dust factory In the
neighborhood doubled its workmen so.
as to grind up the teeth. Meanwhile
the people were waiting for the dentist
to fit them with new sets, but the
abandoned scoundrel eloped with the
hotel-keeper's wife, and now there are
1000 or 3, 600 people in town Who can
not eat anything tougher. than soup
and farina. All the butchers have
failed, not cracker has been sold for
three weeks. One man, it is said,.
whitfield out set Of wooden teeth for
himself, but the first drink Of whisky he
took Cincinnati whisky y--set them in a
blaze, and his funeral came off next
day. The dentist will hear something
/ to his advantage if he goes back to War
renton. aax
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Mn. CHARLES Francis ADAMS, JR.,-
has knack of working mp statistics that
makes his lecture on railroads as enter
tanning as it is instructive He shows
by the official tables that If person
travelled as passenger on Massachusetts
railroads eight hundred miles day every
day OF his life, he would, by doctrine Of
chances, be 10 years old before he would
receive an injury in q railroad accident
French statistics showed that stage
coach travelling was at least fifty times as.
dangerous as travelling by rail- The dan
ger Of being murdered in Massachusetts,
was greater by far than that tof being killed
in a railroad accident In 1873 the rail
roads carried 42, ,OO0. 900 passengeuS with
out killing one in the same year alone
Ave persons were killed by tumbling
down stairs, seven by falling out Of win
dows. In fact Mr.. Adams figures
seem to prove that there is not n much
safer place of refuge i'm the world than
Massachusetts, railway.
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GEN. M. g. Conn, the attorney, who
was shot some months ago by Hannah
snythe. for q supposed injury, has so
far recovered as to be able to be on the
streets of San Francisco again.
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should not the campbers be found in Africa ?

should not the CampbeIs be found in Africa
GLaughter.l
!. In conclusion, therefore, l rise from the
spirit of deviltry enshrined in the poetry of
our bard to those other and more elevated
creations which have added luster to Gale
donia and made a new history for the lyric
muse. May your enjoyment of this anniversary
be unalloyed by the presence of any other than
that of the blithe and bonnie spirit which makes
that muse as mirthful as it is immortal. Zap
plausel
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02

THE tomb of Rachel, in Pere Ia Chaise,.
Paris, is a very small but beautiful Greek
chapel.
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PENNsxLvAn1A stiIl produces 60, ,Ooo,-
600 worth of lumber annually.
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THE SPIRIT OF DET1LrRY

Ret'edFiis Of Hon. s. s. Cor at the Celebration
Of the birthday of Barns by the Bsras
CIst6 Of Washington, ID. C.
Aour President introduces me somewhat
vaguely as one Of the biographers of Satan i
had supposed my humble article was long since
forgotten 1t is said in Scripture that the devil
and all his works shall perish. I wonder that
all the works ON the devil himself have not per-
lshed. But really. he is not SO black after all.
he has many winning ways. He Is as much
entitled to q biographer as q witch to q cat /
can see that my friend, the President takes
q family and national pride in him. When the
article referred to was printed. it was for the
Knlc6erbockeT- Magazine and intended to
glorify "Old Knick" in literature. How omit
ted Burns 'tAuld Hornie. or '' ''Clooties" can
scarcely tell. was quite young then, had not
mixed much in society or politics had not come
to Congress, and, therefore, my knowlege of
devilty was limited EI4aughter-l The longer
live the more see of it-and perhaps the
more we live the more we tolerate the evil
genius.
Indeed the Scotch devil. as organized by the
genius of Burns, is substitute to his better
qualities. 1t seems at first blush to be sug-
gested by Milton's apostrophe to the Prince who
led the embattled seraphim against Heaven !;
but his is a better Setan than the warrior of
Milton. He takes no delight in the squeezing
sinner. Old aClootie" has nice seud-of for
his noted name. Burns makes him rage. te be
sure, Like roaring lion 50 tirling the kinks. y He
reproduces the wildness of the lonely glen"
and ruined castle amidst the windy winter
nights He calls on the warlocks and hags Of
the kirz-yards, the water kelpies of the ford,
hes anFf ata
until he brings his Satan, ntt7lc pro tune into
Paradise inoog, to give the infant world a
6 shog, I" and then makes him play practical
joks on Job. until he fairly boiled to pardon
him by the benevolent universalism Of the last
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How the Hard Times Aaect Things i'm
New York.

First, building is stopped, and men by the
hundreds are thrown out Of work. Rents are
down, and landlords have To wait where
rents remain, or take the stores and ware
houses on their own hands. Every third
store on Broadway seems to be TO let, with
chambers and lots iRnumerable. Men who
had fair employment, last May, and took a
tenement TO live in, having lost their place,
have TO give up; society is so interlOcked that
what hurts one department hurts all. The
hotels are losing money, and seem like
banGueting halls deserted. Grocers grOaa
over the lack of trade. Men who bought by
The pound, buy ny the garter; men who
bought by the chest, buy by the quarter; men
who bought by the chest, buy by the pound.
Butchers say that their trade has decrease
one-half: men live on Veget GbleS. The BARRIERS
complain; men shave themselves. The car
receipts are reduced; men walk instead of
riding. They have nothing to do, and five
cents is worth saving. The churches feel
this state OF things terribly. In one church
That happen TO know, over n third OF the
pew rents have been lost, and the penny coll
lectionS have been reduced one-half In the
most important Baptist church in this city,
$1,000 was taken from the minister's salary,
and in milf he resigned. A general reduc-
ton of salaries is threatened all along the
lne. Last year, in Brooklyn, a very costly
Presbyterian church was built through the
influence of one man. He was worth
quarter OF a million, and promised To "see
The thing through" He went to smash, and
the minister, diSheartened. has left. Oar
mission work feels the pressure beyond ex-
ample. The sufferers have increased n nun
dred-fOld, and the supply is cut of full 81 per
cent. The same is true of all the benevolent
operations. The Dutch church have an
nounced that their receipts, the last month.
for missions were the smallest ever known
since the organization. Men are begging
who never begged before. There is ALSO
lutely nothing To be done, and no pay ii peO-
pie could get work. To say that there il ac-
speak within bounds.-[['' BIgIeigt's'' Letter 10
Boston Journal.
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DIED.


BRADLEY On Friday. February d. AT IIs5 q.
m. Of liver disease after menths illness, jon
7. BRADLEY, in the Esd year OF his age.
Friends 81 the family invited 90 attend his ia
neral al clock Sunday afternoon nc fifth Ba ptst
Church. Virginia avenue, between "a and 9th sts
south Washington.
CLUB. At Ito a. m saturday, February q. OF
typhoid pneumonia, JoHN LOUIs CLUB, in the 10th
year of has age.
Friends the family are invited a. attend the ia
neral from his late Residence, No 900 street north
west, Monday, at .. NJ.
DENIsoN. On Friday morning, February 18th.
after an illness Of three days, DUDLEY, youngest
child Of Dudley A. and Hattie &. DenisOn, aged J
years and months.
Funeral Sunday afternoon st O'Clock, from the
residence Of his parents, 02f ath street friends
of the family are res pectfuy invited 90 attend. p
HUMPHREY. On the morning of the 18th inst d,
after a lingering illness. JOIN dUMPHREY. ST. aCed
~ years. months and - days.
Funeral viii Jake place from the residence VI his
son in law, John y. Crews, sos stu street north
west. Sunday. the 2sth instant M O'Clock o. m. 90
which the relatBes and friends respectfully in
Nited.
MoKELDEN. on the morning 81 the 3sth Of Feb-
IuaIy 1873, fREDERiCK EksrMAS. beloved son Of
Nilliam b. and Alice NJ Mckelden, aged month
and q days.
The friends Of the family are invited attend tie
funeral at ~ clock Sunday afternoon, from AZ
street northwest. Brooklyn papers please c0pyt
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\ Young man. barely pas: tn equiaa,-
tai parallel ~ lie, came into our Ollie -
cenfls atf'i asked % Sea Sac managing eiftof
The look o. intellectual pirty which one,
must have adorned his face was al most COW
end over with al expression ~ long slfi ef-
Cl agony and Ia gga rin. . Tho face thaf a.
one time was Smoof's o. "A whit a. n bust al
Iarian maThl" uCfr l,o-e the indalibie marks
o. innuiuarahlp -rtt>. Onp ear con tht, star
booru s'cel was entirely gone, and TIE other
was puncluUN with two holes a. DO a so der
had been practiciug IA 10 win new punch
he nose that erSt hat benn his pride Was az
hatciworS. and the fOrshead. whence the
sNln had eNen stripped down 10 iurtn a new
nose. was marked by a hr,nsI patrh ~ ri .
INC INC brand on an army mule. When n
otseutN hiN mouth Ia speak, we noticed that
az at, ne itlntSl Teeth were gone, aud that one
jaw haa teeen fractured near the left parbalic
curve To make the measure OF nj mufila-
ted NiSage complete. W. might add thar the
SolorlIE around each eye was OF more varied
hues than "A rainbow IN June or one OF Viii
Mobiles morning scenes
He told III IN tones of rcpentance and Ia
mentaii0nS That lie was newspaper maa.
dust NTat ~ thoughtD A wear aln ne had
taken GrNglcy'S advice and gone West To
grow up with the country. In the town OF
BlocdNhrook. Nevada. he found an editor
who was about 90 depart 20 the orange eroy -
Of FLORIDA. FOR his health. and who wanfeI
10 sell out. THIS Bootyhrook maa hat
borne up under multltudp OF affiictfonN
eut a. he had been shot six times and stab
hod threSa-oncc in the brnaSt and twice fn the
bclghbc-hood 81 the Gmhiltca he thought
IT would not do 10 ltngcr longer In that s.
were climate Well our young man aid ne
b1ught The puny mans paper and startet
out 10 " I'm has fortune
His motto was. Charity cor None. Msl-
Ice for All" Had he sold outs No. hnf ha
aicnt publish that Blooiy braok Moral
Machine any more. He wanted 10 cot on a
paper where There was mprg than one man
To he whipped when any one had a Grievances
10 lCuItiOe. Had We rpom fpr HIM We r.
lcruId him tn the managing editor. TEa went
cut murmuriug that De didn't want any
more onc-hor>e newspaper in hlS'n Tie
wanted q Position on a paper where ther,.
were AT least twelve lighting mcn.-C,a-it-
fufi FHglfirT.