The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12


sion, having almost unanimously reject
ed it.
MISS ADA SWEET, the sweet little Pen
sion Agent at Chicago, receives the high
est salary paid to any female employe of
the government.
ALFONSO is deeirous of emulating tho
Imperial of France. He wants
to undergo q stbaptism of fire" like the
latter, and consequently participates in
the operations of the troops now massed
againt the Carlists-
A GRANDSON of King George ". of
aEngland has turned up in Memphis.
His name is Francis Wallford White,
and heis clerk in the Southern Express.
His father was q son Of the profigate
monarch by Mrs. Fitzherbert
THE late Emperor of China left forty
widows. One of them, Alute, has COM
mitted suicide. She was first IN rank,
and her departure from this world would
be deemed in that country only a fit
tribute to the dead Emperor
TIE Secretary of War has furnished
Congress statement of the cost of the
Modoc war, which amounts In the agere-
gate to a little over S411, 600. Now if it
cost the government $411, 600 to exter-
inmate the Modocs, how much would it
cost to exterminate all the Indians?
TIE Senate Committee on Territories
have reported fayorably on the PROPOSE
ton to form a new Territory, to be called
Pembina, and the measure viii probably
pass both houses of Congress. The new
Territory cuts off the northern half of
Dakota, embraces 71,2o0 square miles,
and has 10, 900 inhabitants.
CARLYLE and Tennyson evidently re-
gard themselves as beyond the reach of
any empty honors which the British
government can bestow upon them The
former modestly declines to be Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath, and the
poet laureate refuses to be made Baro-
net. There's modesty for you.
IT turns out that all the ado recently
made about a reward being offered for
mysterious bo.k containing scandalous
memoirs Of George ". of England, was
the sharp dodge of new York publish
er, to advertise sensational work he has
III press. The we1-planned trick was
successful, even the newspapers being
taken In by it.
SENATOR WRIGHT, of Iowa, proposes
to enforce decency and sobriety among
Congressman during their sojourn at
Washington. With that view he has
introduced in the Senate bill to pro-
hibit the sale or manufacture of alcoholic
drinks In the District of Columbia, and
prescribing heavy penalties for violation
of the proposed law.
THE Civil Rights bill, passed by the
House, goes to the Senate to be acted on
irrespective of the bill heretofore passed
by the latter body, and which now lodges
in the House. Owing to the great press
of public business, including the general
appropriation bills, and the short time
remaining of the session, it is doubtful
if the Senate will definitely act upon the
measure.
DARFoUR has just been annexed to
Egypt, and the Khedive is now looking
for more worlds to conquer. The new
province Is fertile in tropical produc-
Gons, and has large and valuable in
land commerce. It's inhabitants are a
mixture of Arabs and negroes. The
Sultan has hitherto been supreme, des-
potic, cruel, but devoted to the religion
of Mohanmed.
TIE committee of the national Senate
TO which was referred Senator Wright's
bill, providing for reduction of 10 PEI
cent. In the salaries of all civil and mill
tary officers of the United States, for two
years from the 1st of next July, has made
a favorable report upon the measure. II
has little chance of adoption, however
by the present Congress, owing to the
shortnees OF the session.
RESISTANCE to the non-sectarian schoo
act, which went into operation some time
since in New Brunswick, has culminateo
in bloodahed, and further trouble il
feared An attempt to enforce the ac
was followed by . riot at Caroquet, il
which several persons were slaughtered
The military was called out, and troops
are now quartered in the sections where
the anti-school party has eyinced thu
most decided opposition TO the Law
There may be serious trouble yet.
HoS. JAMES z. EDsAIL, Attorney Gen
erd Of Illinois, who was . delegate to thu
Protestant Episcopal Convention recently
in session in Chicago, cieverly turned I
well-meant compliment passed in du'
course of parliamentary etiquette on th'
Aoor of that assembly. A member de
batting . motty legal point, was "sur'
L. A+4,vnav-f General was good AUTHORITY