The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-10-01

$18, 400, for the benefit of the Texas suffer
ers, was forwarded by telegraph yesterday
Carolina Pells, the young German
stla bank out of S19.300, on forged cfecl
of Warder, Mitchell, &c Co... Springfield
ONO, was convicted and sentenced to tWt
years and a half in the penitentiary.
It is announced that the Young Men.
Christian Association have leased Gilmor,;
qafden for the winter, and that Moody AM;
Sankey will begin series OF revival meet
ings November 1st, which are to continue
| all winter.
Loans decrease $155, GOO; specie decrease
$I17.3OO legal, tenders decrease 45l 600
crease $62.400.
NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-Gold closed l6 X
ala; money!, ! u; governments steady:
stocks. moderately active, stronger; West.
ern Union, 76; Quicksilver, Is; W. F., 7s;
Pacific Mail, 345s; New York. Central,
10218; Erie, IN; Panama, 33; Union Pa.
Imports for the week. So, ,292, 2iS; pro
duco exports; $4,620, 232; specie exports.
$3.50, 345; customs receipts Today &426, ,O05;
The steamship Ethiopia, now a:week
overdue, which has large n,fmber of west
crn passengers on board, was spoken loo
miles out and is expected in tomorrow.
She broke her maid shaft aud has since been
under sail.
NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-The steamship
Ethiopia, which left Glasgow September
4th and was disabled at sea, arrived here
tonight.
New york. Sept. 25.-The Convention
OF insurance Commissioners and Superin-
tendents met in extra session tllis morning
at the Fifth Avenue hotel. The time and
place for holding the next anntIal meeting
was discussed, and it was finally resolved
to meet at Harrisburg. Pa, on the Goth Of
September, 1876. The convention then adj
journed. n:
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-The Foirrtl, Nation
al bank of this city, to-day closed its doors
and has went into voluntary liquidation.
The bank has been gradually reducing its
business for some time. Its entire deposits
amount to about a hundred thousand.
against which it has bills receivable for
$3OO.O00. It is not regarded as disastrous
failure. neither was it unexpected by our
local financiers.
.:TRoY, n. V, Sept. 25.-Thomas and
MADELEINE Stark. residing Oh Green Island,
took laudanrm Thursday night. intending
to commit suicide. = Thomas partially re-
covered yesterday and repeated the dose,
making two ounces and n half in all, but
even that failed to kill him. His wife died
last night. and it is said he will end his life
the first opportunity. He has been out CT
work eighteen months, and having expend-
ed all the money he had saved. he aud his
wife preferred death to subsisting on the
bounty of friends. Both We're Germans,
she sixty and the husband fifty years old.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 25.-At New Albany,
Indiana, carly yesterday forenoon, Jacob
r. Utter, laborer, suffering from the eff
fects of hard drinking, killed his wife by
crushing her skull with hammer. He
then set fire to the house and going into
the back yard cut his own throat. Sever
ing the wind-pipe with pocket-knife.
the couple were about fifty years of age.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 25.-Miller, of the U. S.
Circuit Courq, has given decision Oh de-
murre- to indictments of Gen. Mcdonald.
Colonel Joyce and other. IL & officials and
whisky men. All points in the defendants
demurrer were ovcrruled, but the uqestiOn
of rneager or whether the lesser offense was
under Consideration.
G. X. Budd, one OF the oldest and best
known citizens of st. Louis, died on the
25th.
ST. LOUIS, Sept 25-Gen. John D. Crof
ton, ex-Atljutant General of the State, was
arrested at his home in Clay county yester-
day charged with forgery, in connection
with war claims examined while he was in
also arrested for completely in the offensc.
TUCSON, A. Il. Sept. 25.-The eastern
mail arrived nine hours late yesterday, de-
layed on account of heavy snow storm III
the vicinity of Silver City, New Mexico.
Snow fell to the depth of seven inches for
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Thc British ship
Western Empire, Capt BERTHE, from Pensa-
cola, 18th inst, for Grimsby, with lumber,
became watcr-logged in a hurricane on the
18th in lat. 1888 N. long. S7.54 w. and
was abandoned. The Captain and crew
landed OH ST.. Vincent Island. ,Appalacili-
cola bay, Florida, in boats. In landing,
one boat capsized and seven men were
drowned. The rest, seventeen, Including
the captain, landed at Pensacola on the 2th
inst, in destitute condition.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, Sept. 25.-The
ten miles trot between Maggie Nancy and
Ulster Maid was won by the former. Time
new YoRk, Sept. 2S.-The international
rifle match ut Creedmoor to-day between
Americans and Canadians was won by
by 25 points.
NEwBURGII, Sept. 25.--Three OF the
buildings of the powder mills, four miles
west OF here, were blown mp at 8 o'clock
tonight. Cause unknown. No person
seriously injured, The explosion shook
buildings in this. city. Great alarm was
occasioncd at the Christian Association
the large audience supposing
from the shocks the building was giving
way, started: for the doors, but We're qui-
eted before any casualty occurred.