The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-26

AhFoNso has undergone that covete6
oaptlsm OF fire and returned to Madr;5
me happlest boy in all Spain.
THREE great ladies' are Mt nrasan4 e,,
ing professional engagements in Cb;oao.,
Charlotte Cushman and Jane,,.ol,a7-
! great dramatic artists. and Mrs. Van
Cott, the powerful religious exborte,
They draw full houses.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAc, the fightino
editor of Paris, is not the kind of q ma.
to take anything back. He rose in co,,,+
the other day, while Gen. Wimnffa,,,s =
libel suit against him was being tried
and repeated his charges against that
officer, retraeting nothing whatever.
A MAN named Muybridge, who had
killed the seducer of his wife. has inst
been tried and acquitted in San Fran
cisco. The jury scorned to take adyan-
tage of the plea of Sc emotional insanity. y,
but boldly acquitted the prisoner on the
ground that he served the seducer right.
IHE fare fore passengers between Chi
'-cago and New York has been reduced by
the baltimore and Ohio Company to
$16.25 The inducement is almost great
enough to Justify prudent householder
III taking pleasure trip to the me-
tropolis, and wasting his substance there
in Tiotous living.
GRANVILLE STUART, of Deer Lodge,
Montana, suspecting cold weather, sent
to New York for a fine spirit Thermometer,
10 his surprise it never marked more
than thirty degrees below, and then he
n found that was its utmost limit. He saws
1t viii do for summer Thermometer
but Is too short by forty-eight inches for
4 Montana winter
PEORIA can claim the honor of having
made woman a bank director. Mrs
Lydia Bradley having been elected first
director of the First National Bank of
that hourishing city. But there is moth
ing unusual in ladies being bankers.
Lady Burdett Coutts, for example. is the
head and proprietor of the old banking
house of Coutts In London, and Lady
Jersey Is or was chief owner of the still
Older bank known as "Childs' - in
London.
THREG New England Congressman
have passed away within a few weeks
whose combined wealth aggregates near
~ ten millions of dollars Alvah Crock
er, of Massachusetts,, left between three
and four millions; Samuel Hooper, of
the same State, left an estate estimated
at nearly five millions and the worldly
goods of the late Samuel Hersey. a
Maine member, are. appraised at
50. 600, 900.
We may look for exciting times in the
English Parliament. Not only have the
Home Rulers determined to submit to
the House of Commons demand for the
repeal of the act of union, threatening to
withdraw in body if the request should
be denied, but Tipperary has elected
John Mitchell to represent it in the I'm
perial Legislature. To cap the climax,
the electors of Stoke-upon Trent, an En-
glsh constituency, have sent DIR. Kenealy,
of Iichborne trial notoriety, to the lower
house.
THE project for the erection of Terri
orial government over the country
usually known as the Indian Territory
is effectually squelched for the present
The committee of the national House of
Representatives to whom the bill for
that purpose was referred have reported
against it. They state that they can find
no authority to justify, but much in the
many treaties with the Indians occu-
pying the Territory which forbids, the
proposed Legislation, and express the
hope that Congress viii set the seal of
it's displeasure es upon this and kindred
movements calculated to destroy the
binding force of the nations obligation
to the prosecuted people who are thereby
to be affected.
The Judiciary Committee of the United
States Senate, having been directed by
that body to report what Is the meaning
and extent of the so-called Press-gag law
enacted by Congress last summer, sub |
mitted report the other day, In which |
they declare that ss no person can be
brought into the District of Columbia |
under it, either for libel or any other |
crime, . and that the act is 50 necessary
and proper, and in perfect accordance
with the principles Of justice and the
cause of civilized Jurisprudence, and
that g without provisions of this charac-
ter, the District of Columbia would be
an asylum for offenders committing I
crimes against the laws of the United +
States, and escaping hither. !" The report
is signed by Senators Edmunds, Conklin,
FreInghuysen, Wright, Thurman and
Stevenson.
ALL the signs in Europe point toward /
another great war. Germany has re-
Gently strengthened her enormous army
by virtually adding to it the Iandsturn,
and the other nations are oppressed BY
the burden of immense armies which
cannot be reduced until final settle