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


public.
As1Ar1c cholera has broken out in
Mexico.
AUSTRALIA will be represented in the
Centennial. 8lE
Dr.. PAINE believes that bronchitis is
caused by parasites.
LEGAL rate of interest in China is set
down at 20 per cent. per annTm-
FoRNEY says he didn't see single
lobbyist about the French Assembly.
THE greatest beer-drinling city IN the
CRcAsnAN girls are plenty and cheap
this year In the slave mart at Constant1-
nople.
CHOICE breeds of cattle are being
shipped from the Channel Islands TO this
country.
THE Supreme Court of Maine granted
four hundred and eighty-seven divorces
last year.
AN English traveller speaks of seeing q
wild coffee tree in Liberia seventy five
feet high.
THE army of Spain is to be increased
&c, 900 men. Eight thousand reals viii
exempt a man.
A TURKISH porter viii trot along with
perfect ease, carrying weight OF Eix
hundred pounds.
THE salary of the Governor of New
| York is now $1,000 year, instead of
| $4, 900, as formerly.
MADAaAsoAR, having abolished slavery,
is ready to join in a coalition of civilized
nations against Spain.
/ VIZ ~
! industry at the East are striking against
q reduction of wages.
PROMPTED by the experience of this
winter, the makers are hereafter to build
thermometers as high below zero as they
are above.
| LARGE quantities of steel rails are being
gathered at Deposit by the Erie railway,
to be used in laying their new track the
coming year.
CHARLES ORroN, brother of the Itch
borne claimant, was recently an apph-
cant for relief from the Lambeth (Lon-
don) poor-box.
DEs MONIES; Iowa, will have to de-
pend on dips and kerosene for light for
month to come, on account OF the re-
cent injury to the gas works there.
THE only stream of water running
through Lincoln, Neb., has its source in
the immense salt beds in that part of the
State, and is itself as salty as brine.
AT recent sale of antiquities in Edin-
burgh two of the bones of Robert Bruce
are said to have been sold for .e6, and
one of the vertebrse of William the Lion
for e5 los.
A DISPATCH from Washington says the
total amount of mutilated currency re-
; ceived from the Treasurer, by the Comp
troller, since the passage of the act of
,, June 20 last, is $41 ,066, ,805.
A FEMALE lawyer in Wyoming was re-
Gently obliged to suspend her argument
before Justice in order to administer to
to the wants of her baby, who was argu-
ing for its dinner IN an adjoining room.
t FRANCE, as you may be surprised to
: hear, Is the greatest Producing
q country in the world. She produced
4 332, ,2O9, 900 bushels in 1873. The United
0 States ranks second in this respect, and
: Russia third
AT the meeting of National Council of
: Sovereigns of Industry at Philadelphia
! last week the report of the President is
said to have shown that the order has
I members in twenty States, and an aggre-
= gate membership of 100000.
f A METALLIC coffin, containing the re-
c mains of boy, was dragged up from the
f bottom of the Mississippi, q short dis
Q tance above New Orleans, few days ago.
n The caslet was of a kind that has not
Q been made within fifteen years.
SAYS the Kennebec Journal: s. The
Superintendent of the Augusta Gas
Works stopped his paper yesterday be-
cause we alluded to the miserable gas he
: is furnishing his patrons. He had no
q particular need of q newspaper with no
2 gas to read it by. We recommend that
4 he put in kerosene.
= GLASGOW is going to erect monument
o to Livingstone In the form of an indus
d trial mission settlement at the south end
% of Lake Nyassa. Half of the sum of
% e1O,O0O needed for the enterprise was
e raised at the first meeting. The station
) is to be put under the charge of Mr.. K.
% d. Young, r. N, who commanded the
!; Livingtone search expedition.
= ABOUT 1000 men are now employed in
i the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila-
delphia Three locomotives for Brazil
and one for Cuba will soon be completed
and shipped. The firm have orders for
3 sixteen first-class engines from Brazil.
n They are also making SIX for the west
NJ coast of South America, and q number
ID for roads in different parts Of the United
O. States.
- A CABLE dispatch announcing the sat
J, isfactory termination of the indemnify
"A negotiations with Spain, growing out o.
;s the Virginius affair, is the cause of mucl
- congratulation in diplomatic and officia
y circles at Washington, because it re
~ moves the last pretense for a war witt
Ill pn osno s an ,s ss:1s sS:1lnens ~ E'..
man who was taken from the Virginiul
and shot, and $500 to the family of eacl
colored man.
leE The Society Bow.