The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-05

SPAIN is happy. Her boy King has
issued several proclamations since he
the throne, and there is no end
to the great things the young man prom
ises to do. He viii give everybody
everything, and viii do everything for
Alfonso is decidedly the most
promising person at present engaged in
tine king business.
This Beecher Is a very queer man. At
a recent prayer-meeting in Plymouth
Church he said he had no such trouble at
present as he had once when he was
boy, and his father told him he might go
hunting with him, and Aunt Chandler,
without knowing it, sent him to get some
snuff, and when he got back his father
had gone.
States amounted to 92O, 900, 900 bushels,
according to the statistics of the Agri-
cultural Bureau. Last year it was SOO,-
900, 900 bushels. The cost of trans
portation is so great that the farmers
find that there is not much profit in rails
ing corn. It must be converted into
meat on the farm to yield profit, ex-
.cept when raised near water communi-
cation.
Or the Republican Senators who voted
for Andrew Johnson's conviction in the
impeachment trial of 1868, the following
are still in the Senate, and will be after
the 4th of March, next Senators An
thony, Cameron, Conkling, Frelinghuy
sen, Ferryof Connecticut, Howe, Morrill,
of Vermont, Morrill, of Maine, Morton,
Sherman, and Wilson, now Vice-Presi-
dent. 1t is safe to predict that Andy will
not make bosom friends of any of the
foregoing.
Mrs. OLIVER PERRY RICE, of Indian
-apolis, is apparently about to enter upon
a siege of trouble. She is assured by no
less an authority than the Hon. George
HI. Pendleton that she is the legitimate
heir to Sc, coo, ,OOe of property IN Ale
gheny county, Pa. Her father died in
the happy Inconsistencies that he owned
the property but it has none the less
been made to appear that such is the
fact. The result will be an interminable
series of lawsuits, and an experience for
the claimant similar to that of Mrs.
Gaines in New Orleans.
ATToRNEY-GKNRR WILLIAMS has
commenced suit against the Central Pa
-cific railroad for 81, ,s36, ,635, and against
the Union Pacific for 81 ,O4O, 900, and
against other roads for smaller sums, ag-
gregating So, $50, 200. The demand for
these sums is based on an act of Congress
requiring an annual report of their earn
ings to the Secretary of the Interior, to
gether with the payment by them of five
government. These provisions have
been ignored, aad hence the suits.
GHN. TRACY, of the counsel for Mr..
Beecher in the great Brooklyn trial, was
at one time an adviser of Mou1ton and
Tilton. Words spoken by him in the
early days of the scandal are returning tc
plague him now. For instance, MIR
Woodruff, MIR. Moulton's partner, tesi
fed the other day that Tracy, severa
months ago, thought the case was one tc
justify Mr.. Moulton IN Ising. And i
appears that Moulton led. Moulto1
seems to have been . very accommodat
ing fellow in this respect. He lied righ
and left whenever he was asked anC
sometimes spontaneously from inertia.
THE Senate Committee on Patents,
before whom the application has beer
for q couple of years, have refused *
grant an extension of the patent of a. B
wilson's four-motion feed for sewing
machines. The inventor has realized 4
fortune of several million dollars from
Esisa invention, and It is estinated tha
the risonopoly vould be worth from go,
900. 900 to $50, ,0OO, 600. for the next sever
wears. The result of this refusal to gran
an extension win be to cheapen the price
as it has been shown That the price of av
erage sewing machines is but $12, and
-ttaat not less than go prcEit p made d
.eyerv machine nan1faeturad-s sSks
PRoBABnY no man now living in thi
country has had q more extensive o
varied experience inspublie Life than An
drew johnson. After serving sewers
years in both branches of the Tennessee
Legislature, he was elected Represents
tive in Congress- and served in that ca
pacity from 1s43 TO 1853. Then he wa
chosen Governor of Tennessee an
served two terms In 1857 he was elect
ed to the United States Senate and serve
there till 1852, when be resigned to az
-cept the position of Military Governor {
Tennessee. In April, 1866 by the deaf
of Mr.. Lincoln, he became President {
the United States. He was 66 years ol
last December, and six years more In Ii
Senate viii probably suffice TO square b