The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-16

a SON of Alexander Hamilton, now
hVlng IN New York, at the age of 80,
claims that his father wrote the whole of
Washington's farewell address, with the
exception of the first three lines.
IHE fiery, untamed Florence McCar-
thy, ex-preacher, ETC., has abandoned
religion and taken up law. He has been
admitted to the Chicago bar, and won
hls first case In a Justices court the
other day.
THESE are hard times with Illinois
railroads. Eleven lines In the State,
embracing a total mileage of 2,196 miles,
have gone into bankruptcy within the
last few months, and are now in the
hands of receivers.
The members of the Louisiana Inves-
tigating Committee are agreed upon only
one point-that the Conservatives were
Illegally deprived by the Returning
Board of majority in the Legislature
which met on the 4th of January. Upon
everything else they have agreed to dis
agree.
The absurdity of ante-dating news
papers is well illustrated by New York
hebdopladal issued, according to the
date-hne, on March s, and in its leading
editorial announcing that " this number
OF the - makes its appearance on the
anniversary of the birth of George Wash
ington.'
DAN RICE, the celebrated Snowman
has just gone through his regular annual
bankruptcy process. This year he owes
over two hundred creditors, scattered all
over the United States, and his indebt-
dness amounts to 100000. Assets, one
old worn-out trick-horse, So. 80; one suit
of clothes, S75; total, S77.50.
GERMANY controls $500, 900 men for
military purposes. Russia has more,
and France and Austria nearly as many.
They and all other European powers are
perfecting their armies. This does not
look much like the millennium. The
plowshare and pruning-hook transfor-
nation scene seems to be indefinitely
postponed.
The youthful Alfonso Is making the
unpleasant discovery that he is not to be
carried to the Spanish throne on f1owery
beds of ease. With the Carlists provok-
ingly obstinate in the north and assassins
lying in wait for him in Madrid and else
where, the young man is beginning to re-
alize soms of the perils that environ the
alan who wears a crown In SPAIN
WE learn from a report recently sub
mitted to Congress that the number of
bales of cotton seized in the South under
orders from the Treasury Department
after the close of the war was 80, 638 !;
gross proceeds, S7,65O, ,676; total ex-
penses, 8, 160, ,434 proceeds released,
S6O3, $40 proceeds in the Treasury,
1886, ,672.
IT appears from official data that the
number of Indians captured by United
States troops IN 1873 was 227; Indians
killed by United States troops, 405; citi-
zens killed by Indians, A; soldiers killed
by Indians, 48; and during six months
of 1874 the number of Indians captured
by United States troops was 73; Indians
killed by United States troops, 158; citi-
zens killed by Indians, 36; soldiers
killed by Indians, 3.
ONE who attempted to work through
the muddle of the great scandal case,
gives MS as the result, that after
one week he found his mind giving way,
the next he felt gentle haze of mild i'm
becility stealing over him, and the third
he came out a confirmed idiot. There
was no need of excluding juEymen from
the box ON the ground of having formed
an opinion the trial is fatal to the mind
itself, of which not one yestige will be
left by the time it comes to verdict
GENTLEMEN intending to be robbed
would do well to have the operation per-
formed in railway depot. Mr.. Jason
Weeks, who was attacked by highway
man In the New Haven depot, in New
York, several years ago, and robbed oi
$16, 600, sued the company for the
amount and has just obtained verdict
on the ground of negligence on the par
of the company in protecting its passen
gers. IF the decision is sustained it vii
be a precedent which viii be awkward
for the railway companies.
WAsHrraToS presents some rather re
markable phases of social life. There i
at this time in that city granddaughtel
of Thomas Jefferson, who, with hel
Young son, is pleading for an appoint
Tnent for one or the other as means o
.s1pport. The daughters of ex-Secretar,
of the Treasury Robert 2. Walker, ane
those of Chief Justice Taney, are doane
copying as means Of livelihood, an.
there are the grandchildren OF Presl