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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
The California silver Stock Excitement.

San Francisco Is now the center of a
wild stOck-spe ulating excitement. Like
everything else of California origin, it
far exceeds anything of a similar charac-
ter ever known in other parts of the
world. The land that produces giant
trees to which the cedars of Lebanon are
but rs currant-bushes, the country
where onions are raised that the stranger
mistakes for cabbages, and plums are
cultivated that might pass in Eastern
markets for gplants, now that it has
started in the race for distinction as q
center for stock speculation, keeps up its
reputation for wonderful and gigantic
growth, and gives Indication of producing
an excitement that will completely dwarf
the South Sea bubble or our own oil or
gold fevers.
In October last it was announced that
workmen in the Consolidated Virginia
Silver Mines, in Nevada, had struck a
dirt of surprising richness. Examinations
this ledge of ore, or ssbonanza" as it Is
called at the mines, extended at least
l, 700 feet in length, and had q depth of
not less than 600 feet. 1t is supposed to
extend through adjacent mines, and the
stories told of the wealth of the find are
almost fabulous A mining engineer
of large experience estimates that the
" bonanza" contains not less than 81 ,50O,-
0OO,OO worth of bullion. This news
caused the widest excitement in San
Francisco, and the stock of all mining
companies on the Comstock front became
the subject of speculation. Stocks ad-
vanced from $50 to 500 q day, and
stocks that few months ago were selling
below $50 reached $780, Millions were
made by fortunate spectators, and
almost incredible stories are told of the
immense amounts realized by some. A
recent California paper publishes list
of some thirty firms and Individuals who
have during the excitement made from a
quarter of million to a million and a
half each. Some of the principal favorites
of fortune are John Skae, William
Sharon, Senator Jones, Flood & O'Brien,
John Mackay, James G. Fair and Will
lam G. Ralston. According to the last
rate of stock, the property sold for
$54, 900 per foot.
The Consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia Mines are controlled by four men
who are in partnership. They own 60, 600
shares of each mine. They could sell out
to-day ana realize $50, ,O0O, 200. and if they
hold on, and the yield meets their expec-
tations, they viii each in a few years be
worth hundreds of millions.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Mortality by Railway Accidents.

In his address before the mechanical
section of the British Association, Pro
fessor James Thompson discusses the
question of improvements In railway
engineering. BY reference to the reports
for the last twenty-seven years, he shows
that IN the early part of that period about
one passenger in five million was killed.
Through the period the number steadily
diminished, till, in 1873, it was one in
eleven million. Among the employees OF
the roads, however, very different state
of affairs exists, for In the same year,
1873, one out of every 323 employees OF
the railroads in Great Britain lost his life.
The great majority of these accidents
occurred at stations along the lines in the
operations of coupling and shunting, or
switching the cars from one track to
another.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

Boiled hnseed oil will keep polished
tools from r1sting, if it is allowed to dry
on them Common sperm oil viii prevent
of copal is frequently applied to polished
tools exposed to the weather. Wooden
materials are the best for wrappers for
metatls4 Iron and steel goods of all de-
scrip6ons are kept free from rust by the
following Dissolve half an ounce of
camphor in one pound of hogs lard, take
off the scum and mix as much black lead
as will give the mixture an iron color.
Iron and steel, and machinery of all
kinds, rubbed over with this mixture and
left with it on for twenty-four hours, and
then rubbed with linen cloth, will keep
clean for months.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
ESQ., or PoInntI-1,hina.

The Michigan, Farmer relates the fol
lowing: j. ID. Peck. of Plymouth, last
Thursday, brought to market an Essex
hog eleven and half months old, which
weighed 373 pounds dressed. This re-
markable hog was sold for So. go per
cwt. With it was a Poland China hog,
of eighteen months, which wei ghed 479
pounds. This hog sold for So 25 only,
the difference in price arising from the
difference in quality of the two breeds.
The one brought $32. OF, and the other
$39.5 We have not the data of feed
ing with which we can compare the value
of the two breeds distinctly, but We
should like to know whether the extra
S7.45, paid for the extra months feeding
OF the Poland.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Clinninc Horses.

Commodore Vanderbilt is bitterly op-
posed to clipping the hair of horses.
The New York Post says: This veteran
horse-fancier, who has hardly his supe-
rior in America. remarked in the pres
ence of several gentlemen that he would
himself willingly give a handsome
premium to any one who would compile
a correct report of deaths occurring
among valuable horses in the city of New
York, from colds and other diseases en-
gendered by this practice. 90 In fact, .
added the Commodore. s' [ thought of
this matter before getting out of bed this
cold morning, and really don't under
stand how it is that Mr.. Bargh has not
got after these inhunlan fashionables. -
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
4oIIsEHoTD AND KTrCHEN.

Old paper collars cut in strips quarter
inch wide make an excellent taper FOR
lighting lamps.
SAyoRY DIsH. Melt quarter Of a
pound of good cheese Ia the oven when
sufficiently melted, add one egg and 2
wine-olass of milk, beat together until it
resembles q custard. Bake N 3 hot oven
q light brown.
CoMMoN CLEAR BRowN Cavity
an onion i, butter. add half pint Of
brofh or stoek. pepper and salt to tastes
a small piece Of ham or hacon, minced
small. little Worcester sauce, sprig Of
thyme, and one of parsley. Let e boil
five minutes, put IL BY TIL wanted, and
strain it before serving.
IT is said that the unpleasant squeak o1
boots and shoes may be prevented Dy
simply driving row Of pegs througn slle
sole from the toe toward the heel The
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
NIanure for Whent.

The Dela,Care State journal says
Wherever organic matter abounds in the
soil free use of bones and potash viii
speedily restore it TO its original fertility.
In sandy soils organic matter in the form
of peat, muck, or leaf mold should be
aEsombined with the bones and potash.
THE finer the bones are ground the more
speedy their action. IF the bones are
ground in raw state, that is, without
steaming or burning, and ground very
fire and mixed with three times their
weight of fine muck or peat, or leaf
mold, and kept moist for three weeks
before being used, they VIII generate
all the ammonia necessary to the rapid
growth of wheat or other growing crops,
without the addition Of other sub
stances
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
The wav to Drive Sheen

q began at last to reflect as to the cause
OF the sheep driving so badly, and it
occurred to me that the reason was that
they had filed themselves during the
night, and wanted to lie down and chew
their end, instead of travelling on q full
stomach. Accordingly, when night came,
instead of turning them into q pasture
tield as heretofore, put them into a
nice, clean barnyard, and let them rest
all night instead of eating. Next morn
ing when turned them on the road 1
had to get before them to restrain then.
l found it necessary to use long pole to
keep them back, so marvellous was the
change Eiurlller
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Wn.Horr's Fnvrn AND Aeur Tos1o

WmHoFTs FEVER AND AGuE TONIC
This medicine is used by construction COM
panies for the benefit of their employees, when
engaged in nalarious districts. The highest
testimonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads In the South and West, When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neighbor-
hood Of gwamps and rivers, Wilhoft's Tonic
viii prove valuable addition to the stock of
medicines, and VII amply reward the company
in the saving OF time, labor and money. We
recommend i TO AL WHEE1ocK. Fnu-Ax q Co..
Proprietors, New Orleans. Forsale By all drug
gista.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Protection Against Rabbits.

The best manner of protecting an
orchard from the depredations of rabbits
until the bark becomes sufficiently rough
to prevent their attacks is to form shields
of tar paper, building paper, or some
similar material, to be tied about them
in the fall and to be removed IN the e
spring. OF course If deep SHOWS prevail
these shields must be high enough SO
that the rabbits, mice, squirrels, or other
animals cannot reach from the surface to
the unprotected bark. Building sharp
mounds about the trees is also praclced
successfully, but this costs good deal OF
labor. Smearing with blood, liver, and
other animal offd is liable to be washed
off before spring. It is the odor of the
substance that repels rabbits, and not
the material itself, and so long as the
odor remains the trees are secure, unless
the animals are severely pressed by hun
ger
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
nanagement of Farmers. Boots.

4 Western farmer of many years ex-
perience in the proper management of
thick boots states that before wearing the
boots give the bottoms good coating of
coal tar and dry it in then oil the ''up-
pers with castor oil, about one table
spoonful to each boot then oil them
once week with castor oil, when one
teaspoonfuI will be sufficient. If the
weather should be rainy, or you are COM
PEELED to work IN water during the day,
wash your boots clean at night, hold
them by the fire until quite warm and oil
them while the leather is quite damp,
and you will have no trouble about your
boots getting hard and shrinking so that
you cannot get them on. If the leather
should become red give a coat of ordinary
shoe blacking before oiling. The effect
of castor oil Is to soften the leather,
while it fills the pores and prevents the
water from entering. / have stood in
mud and water two or three inches deep
for ten hours day for week, without
feeling any dampness or having any diff
Guilty In getting my boots on or off. Coal
tar will render the soles of boots hard
and tough and make the leather wear
like iron.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

THERE are few who need to be told
that the Sherman House is the best
hotel in Chicago. But all may not have
learned that its prices have recently been
materially reduced.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Ptanoa and 0rrn

Pianos and Organs.
Fine new rosewood pianos for $500.
Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125.
Good secondhand pianos, $50 to $500.
Reeds Temple of Music, Chicago.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

FoR loss Of cud, horn all, red water in
cows, loss Of appetite, rot, OF mnrrsin In sheep
thick wind, broken wind and roaring, and for
distractions Of the kidneys In horses, use Sheri-
dams CnUdlry Condition Poscders.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

THE NORTHWESTERN HoRsE-NAm Go. e
'' Finished Nail is the best in the world.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

An hishman called at q drug store TO
get bottle Of JohasoN's Anodyns Lssainse,st for
the rheumatism the druggist asked him In
what part Of the body It fross5led him most.
g Be me sowl, said he, q have it IN ivery houl
and corner er me-
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
FARM AND HOME.
Laneness In Swine.

LIalneness III hogs is caused sometimes
by the large pores in the back part of the
leg getting clogged. They are a little
above the knuekles in the back part OF
the legs. Wash the lame leg with soap
and lukewarm water, using a stiff brush
and rubbing hard till the pores open,
and when the pores ara washed open the
lameness viii leave.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

VEGETABLE PULMONARY BALsABr!
Host approved, reliable and wellknown remedy foz
Coughs, Colds and Consumption GetMe genuine. Price
81 small, soc. CUTLER BROS. CO.. Boston,
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Imposition
Of sont
FsmAis His remeos hOen mostly from the veEstabs kingdom
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oHS A WEEK Agents wanted everywhere. For
P & % outht 25c. FRIToH q NALKER, DAYTON. Ohio
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WE9fsN WRITING IT'D DADVERTIsERs
w please say you aW & 70 ndveHftsemen
I'm this IA per
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
ADVERTTSERS

Who desire to reach country readers can do in the
best and cheapest manner by using one or more sec
tons of TIE GREAT EBwsPAPER AUsiILIARY IrsTs.
Apply TO Es Es PRATT, 20 Jackson-st-. Chicago.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

GENTS WANTED in every town In the country
n to sell Downers Little Giant Washer: The most
liberal Inducements offered For Particulars address
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

a. 70 WEEK to Agents. Business legitimate.
. 4 " Address w. E. BLISS 4 CO., Toledo, Ohio
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&OA0 month to agents everywhere Address
sVAOV ExCELsIoR MF'G Co., Buchanan, Mich.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

KHIS paper is printed with Ink furnished by Charles
johnson & Co., 509 South Tenth Street, Phia-
dolphin, and 50 Gold Street, New York For sale in 10
and 25- pound cans by
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

EPILEPSY E1Fs by he gss e Rois ER
EE49AENN For circulars, evidence of success ETC.,
address ROSS BROS, Richmond, Ind
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IA ELL CO. Al Park Row. New York, for their Pam
phet e1 containing list of 5000 newspapers and
-inates showing cost of advertising.
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A GENTS TVANTED-Men or Women. Ss4 q
IN week 800 forfeited. free. Write at
once to COWEN Il CO., Eighth Street, New York.
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CONSTANT EAPLOYMENT-At home, AaIo and
Female $50 week insured. No capital required.
Particulars and valuable sample free Address with &c
return stamp, c. Ross, HViiliamsburgh, n. Y
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690SN A NORTHEASTERN wanted everywhere
sTH 20 HG Business honorable and first-class.
TASS~ - Particulars sent free. Address WORTH
Co., st. Louis, Mo.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-12-07

The Columbus Miss Weekly Index
says, in speaking OF the late election
there:
1--WE return thanks to our Alabama
friends who came to our assistance
when they heard that our lives and
homes we're in danger. The self re-
straint they imposed was as commend
able as their promptness in coming
Like good soldiers as they were. they
reported to the city authorities and
remained quietly in their quarters un-
Til their services should be needed
Thess brave Alabamians remembered
that Walthalls and Sharp's Mississippi
ians aud Dea's and Manigualts Ala
bamians had fought side by side dur
ing four wears of war, aud they would
rot remain in security while the former
comrades wore in peril.
IN the Inter-Ocean had asserted that
Alabama soldiers went into Mississippi
10 assist at the late Democratic .tri-
umph the charge would have been in-
dignantly denied. IL We had advocat-
ed the sending Of troops there TO pre-.
ssrve the peace during the election.
though under the command Of officers
having no interest in the result, we
should have been roundly denounced.
And yet here is the admission that
troops were 80 employed, aud that
they were men, not under the com
mand Of impartial officers, bnt volun.
teers from another State, anxious a. d
determined to secure conservative
triumph in Mississippi Such flc,s
explain the Democratic victory in hat
State. Let it be said TO the "a q
OF those who stood Idly by ana 3
this outrage pcrpctrated. Il
Ocs an.
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yrATE NEWS.

The colored band of Kalamazoo gave
a public concert on the street Thanks
gi 'ing day.
The Battle Creek Methodist had
bee, and built their pastor new barn,
last week.
A white swan was killed in Lake st.
Clair last week, which is claimed to be
1876 years old.
The exact amount of paper manufac-
tured by the Kalamazoo Paper Compa-
ny last week, was IL 1865.
The wild lotus found in the vicinity
OF Monroe is believed to bo an exotic
planted by the French botanist, Andri
Michaux.
Josh Billings will deliver the second
lecture of the Albion Lecture Associa-
tion's course. on Dec. Sd. Subject,
Sandwiches.
M. Quad" G. b. Lewis, has sold
one-third interest in his book, "Quods
Odds, for $4,000. publishing firm
in Hartford are the purchasers.
Four men have now died from the
effects of burns received nt the late
fiue explosion at the Pullman car works
at Detroit.
Business is looking well at Albion,
and although nine stores have been
erected during the past year, still there
are calls "a fast as completed.
Deyerelux Station. few miles north
OF Albion, ON the Southern road, re-
ports freight receipts during the month
OF October, 81 ,i13 %.
Frank Butterfield, student Of the
law department at the Ann Arbor Uni
versity was fined sl0 and costs for be-
ing disorlcrly on the streets Saturday.
Saginaw saloon keepers whose Sun
day patrons get "budgy,p compromise
il by paying fines, in order that the
authorities won't prosecute them under
the State law.
John Dawson died at Niles, Tues
day, in his ninety-third year. He had
been blind aud deaf for fifteen years,
and had not been ont of the house for
FIVE.
Thore are three or four papers. pub
lished in the interior Of the Stats,
which did not beg their subscribers
for Thanksgiving turkey.
A rich Cole vein: II IL runored that
Mr.. julie M. Cole, a Coldwater clerk,
has fallen heir to $1,000 hy the death
OF a rich relative in Nevada.
Miss Mary Perry, we'll known in
Coldwater, where she has had some
Law practice, has opened law Office II
Chicago, 142 La Sale street.
Amarried woman Of East Ssginay
has been seeing q ghost regularly ever,
morning for week past. IL Is man
ghost, and the Courier pert n sntly 70
marks that il cannot be the ghost oil
! Saginaw man, for il always calls whe'
'hS HUSBAND IS a. home.
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The Oldest Inh abitnnt.
Picton (N. g. Colonial Standard.

flctOu ". >. tOionlh cthnuaIu.
A woman named Mrs. Jane SEther-
land-familiarly know as big jena
is now living in Upper Barney's River,
in this county, who is now aged 100
years-a fact of which the.old lady her.
self makes us sure. She was born in
the parish of Clyne, Sutherlanshire,
Scotland, and since her emigration to
this country has resided in her present
place of abode, where she reared n
large family, the youngest member of
which is now an old man. Mrs. Suth-
erland can still readily converse in the
good old Gaelic tongue, and her hear
ing is but slightly impaired. She still
plies her daily labors on the old Scot
tish spinring-whoe', aud is as good as
many n woman century younger.
Longevity seems a prominent trait in
her family, for her brother, John Suth-
erland, Kettle, who died about seven
teen years ago, was over 1l5 years old,
and his wife, who died shortly after
ward, was but little younger. The
united ages of this couple we're go
years.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-12-07

1st. 1t is your home; you cannot
improve il by taking your money from
home. to spend or invest.
I'd. There is no way OF improving a
place so much as by encouraging good
merchants, good schools; and good
people to settle among you; and this
cannot be done unless you spend your
money at home.
Sd. Spend your money at home. be-
cause that is where you generally earn
it. it is your duty.
4th. Spend your money at home, be-
cause when II is necessary for you to
get credit il is your own town mer-
chants you have generally TO get it land
they must wait for the money; there
fore when you have the cash in hand
spend it at home.
9th. Spend your money at home.-
IL will make better merchants Of your
merchants; they can and will keep as
sortments and sell at lower rates than
il the only business they can do is cred
it out, while the money goes to other
villages.
9th. Spend your money at home. You
may have some boys growing up who
will some day be the best merchants in
town; help lay the foundation for them
now; it is duty and may be your pride
in after years to say: 'By my trading
at that store got my son position as
clerk, aud now he is proprietor Then
you will think it hard il your neigh
Dor, spend their money out OF town.
Set the example now.
7th. Spend your money at home.
You may have q daughter who may
marry merchant; you will then want
everyone to trade at that store. Set
the example aud buy your dry goods,
groceries meats, and everything at
home.
Sth. Spend your money at home
What do you gain by going off? Count
the cost; see what you conld have done
at home by letting your merchants
have the cash. Strike a balance and
see il you would not have been just as
well OF, besides helping your mer-
chants.
9th. Spend your money at home
Your merchants are your neighbors,
your friends; they stand by you in sick
ness-are your associates; without
your trade they cannot keep their bus
mess. No store, then no banks, no
one wanting to buy your property, set
tie in and build up your town.
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AnArithmos Curiosity.
The Atheneum contains the follow
ing curious arrangement Of figures:

II Will be seen that the sum OF each
line, each column, and each diagonal is
"a. The four corner figures 81. The
corner figures of any square OF four
figures (of which there are four in the
large square) "a. The four figures Of
the central square, 81. The four fig
ures OF each corner of the whole square
"a. Making altogether twenty differ
ent ways in which "a may be reckoned.
The other sums of "a may be obtained
by taking the figures which stand next
to the corner figures going round them
from left to right, thus: 3, 8, IA, @
"a. Then take the figures that stands
on the left OF the corner figures, going
the other way round, 2, 5, Is, l2-3I.
Then take the central figures, 10, IL, Z,
6-34.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-12-07

o Autumn why 80 soon
Depart the hucs that make thy forests glad.
Thy gentle wind and thy fair, sunny moon,
Aud leave thee Wild and sad
An. 'twere a lot too blest
Forever In thy colorcd shades 10 stray;
Amid the kisses OF the soft southwest
To rove and dream for aye;
And leave the vain, low strife
That makes men mad-the tug for wealth
and power,
The passions and the cares that wlthcr lie
And waste Its little hour.
bryant
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SER RMoN.
THANKSGIVING SERMON.

Delivered by Rev. Edward A. stone,
Pastor of First baptist Church, In
the N. r.. Church, Of this city,
November 25th, 1873.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-12-07

The richest woman in America Is
Miss Kitty Wolfe. Her income Is 81,
Opa day. would you-work very hard
{ Keep that kind of Wolfe from your
door.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-12-07

Drs. Price a. Brewer
can be consulted as smiths, rsotcl.
during Monday the 24th January.
Patients win address all letters 20 Drs. Price.
Brewer, waukegan, II, with stamp.
Advice free. Special attention given ~ the
disesses or wonen and children.