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

Think about marriage as we please,
there is no pleasanter sight than newly
welded couple walking home from
church on the first Sunday, with the
BRIDES mother in the rear thoughthlly
adjusting the hustle and back bows OF
the happy daughter.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Since the purchase of the suez canal,
England has sent two accountants to
balance the books of the Khediye and
set bis finances in order.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03
Why is stationer very wicked
man? Because be makes men steel pens
and then says they do write.
NOTrCE.

NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the voters
IN of the city OF Albany, in Linn county,
Oregon, that an election will be held at tile
Court House in said city. on the First
Monday I'm December. 1875. for
the election of one Mayor, one Recorder,
one Marshal, one Treasurer affd six Coun-
cilmen, for the year 1876. Polls will be
opened at nine o'clock In the morning and
closed at six O'Clock in the. evening OF that
day. NJ. A.. BAKER,
City Recorder.
Albany. Or, Nov. 10, 1876.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Here's Yale college ditty-" And if
it is girl, sir, we'll dress her up in blue.
and send her out to Sal -onstall to coach
the freshman crew and if it is boy
sir, we'll put him on the crew, and let
him wax the Harvards as his daddy
used to do.n
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

It is reported the President has now
rendered the position of Commissioner
of Indian Afairs to Congressman VIM.
II. Epson, of Ohio.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

ssThe prisoner at the bar seems to
have a very smooth face.o said a
spectator to the jailor. eyes" replied
the jailoy; "he was ironed just before ne
was brought in!"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Uyprecedentedly cold weather for the
season is reported from all sections of
New England, the mercury ranging
from four to fourteen degrees below
zero.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

aMy onthankful hearers said a back
woods preacher, "you air like onto hogs
eatin' acorns. They never look up to
see where the acorns come from"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Governor Allen has appointed j
AIilliken, of Butler county, Treasurer, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Isaac Welch.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

There's one pleasant thing about
house cleaning. A man can straddle
himself out in the parlor for day or
two and spit on the floor without spelling
a brussels carpet.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Tilton says Washington is so corrupt
that the Man in the Neon holds his
nose when he goes over that city.
What does he do when he goes over
Brooklyn
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

In Salem, one armed Brown and
E. o. Norten were the winners of the
$3.50 horse Gen. J. F. Miller had up
tor rattle.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Surely the President will not pardon
Des Anges. who has been convicted OF
conspiring with other scoundrels to de-
fraud the revenue ofan immense amount.
The crime of bis confederate smugglers
is light compared with his, for they were
not engaged and paid by the Govern
nlent to prevent smuggling; be adds
deliberate and long continued perfdy to
fraud; and were it not that President
Grant has bestowed pardons in many
other very bad cases we would never
dream Of uttering note of warning now.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

James, eldest son Of Or. Helmcken, of
Victoria, lately passed examination at
Edinburg University with honors. He
sFas born d British Columbia.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03
special Neslccs.

AZ Ifyon want to buy the latest style
of lady's Rubber Boots, go to Jake Fleisch-
ner's, on First and Broadalbin streets. eff
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Private advices assert that the Cuban
General De Janginiti.has slain . Span
ish force Of 300 men, under Col. Cam
pello, at the intersection of the main
turnpike, running through the center Of
the island, and the road leading to
Hemedios A deooying force Of sharp
shooters was deployed to lead them into
ambuscade where they were attacked
By the main body of rebels
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03
Capt. sawyerss Conduc4.

From the Victoria Colonist we copy
the following, which shows how the
heartless conduct OF Capt. Sawyer is
there regarded:
When the Captain of the Orpheus
was told there was hail and cries of
distress from the steamship, it was but
natural that he should first concern
himself about the safety of his own
vessel and ascertain that she had not
sustained damage sufficient to cause her
destruction. He says that he sounded
the pumps and found her making no
water, and then goes on to say that the
hail of ssship ahoyr' from the steamer
was reported to hIm by the man at the
wheel. Having ascertained that his
ship was all right he Commenced to
shorten sail;' but why did he not put
| about and run down to the steamer
The hail must have shown him plainly
that the steamship needed assistance !;
and it seems strange that if cries of
| distress from the people on the steam-
ship were heard by others on board the
ship that the Captain did not hear them.
We trust we shall not be considered as
judging this man harshly, or adding
one pang to the anguish which Git be be
animated by the common dictates OF
humanity must wiring his heart when
we say it is perfectly clear that if he
had answered the hail, ran down to the
steamer and sent his boats to the reseue,
not soul Of the large company that
perished SO miserbly almost within sight
of our harbor need have been lost. The
agony of mind our friends on the steam
ship suffered as they saw the lights OF
the ship fade away and realized that
they were left to their fate must have
been terrible indeed. All the facts
connected with this disaster will never
be known; but enough has come to hand
to show that there was culpable care
lessness on the one side or the other;
that on the part Of the steamship there
was a lack of discipline and want of
speedy and safe methods for launching
the boats and that on the part of the
ship there was ian apparently indifference
to the cries of distress which arose from
the sinking people. We trust that tnis
matter will be sifted to the bottom, and
| that the brand of responsibility for the
loss of life and property will be indelli-
bly, affixed to the guilty parties-to be
worn upon thesr brows as a mark of
Cain--to designate them as murderers
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03
New Hampshire was shook some by
an earthquake on the 1st.

The decrease of the public debt last
month was over $780, 900.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

The Hudson river is frozen over
from Hudson to Albany.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

The following parties, under indict-
ment torfraudulent whisky transactions.
have withdrawn their plea of not guilty
and have entered plea OF guilty:
Philip c. Eberwene, Col. George Sim
onson, Jno. Phillips, Harrison Miller,
David nj. Lewis, George Hogan, Geo.
T. Crisis, Christopher Cocholar, VIM.
Menfoat and Dennis Reilly. The
court deferred pronourcing sentence.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Eugene Sue was very richie inhor-
tied great wealth from his father, and
his house in Paris was as sumptuous as
it was artistically furnished; his servants
wore silk stockings and presented his
letters to him on silver salyer-not
bad for a professional radical. He
wrote always in white kids.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-03

Hon Benz. q Avery, Minister 70
China, Is reported dead.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
The Centennial Method of Awards.

The system of awards resolved upon
by the Centennial Commissioners APP
pears to be an improvement upon the
senseless but costly plan of awarding
medals to every body, which has pre-
vailed at most international exhibitions
heretofore. At Vienna pretty much
every exhibitor got a medal, and as the
JuricS were not expected to give any
reasons for awarding Il prize to one man
rather than to another, and as nobody
appears to have entertained Il very high
respect for their judgment, the whole
business became utterly meaningless
and absurd. The only distinctions to
which any Importance was attached
were the few special diplomas, which
were accompanied by no medal or other
valuable consideration, and the dignity
of eve these was impaired by the I'M
fortunate plan on which the juries were
selected. At the Centennial Exhibition
there are to be no medals, but the
Judges are to give their written opinions
upon inventions or products found
worthy of mention, SO that their verdict
will be not only a valuable distinctiont to
the exhibition, but a source of Informal
ton to the public, thus adding material
ly to the general usefulness of the exhi-
bition. Every thing will depend, how
ever, upon the judges, who are, it ap-
pears, to be appointed by the Commits
sion. There will be two hundred of
them-one-half American and one-half
foreign-and they will be "chosen in
dividually for their high qualifications"
the selection be wisely made this will
be all very well; but we hope the Com
missioners understand that to choose
these two hundred judges will be one of
the most difficult and delicate of all
their duties, and one in which they can
not afford to make any mistake.-Phila-
Times.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
Innocence and 0bstinaCy.

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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
Accompany to Get up Weddings.

There is talk of establishing a new
company in Paris afterthe model of the
Pompes Funebres, but instead of o II
Quoting funerals the new company will
get up weddings of all prices and di-
mansions, from the humblest of mar
riages up to n%uptials fit for a million
aire. The huge deserted buildings of
the Magasins Reunis are spoken Of as
the probable l0c0lc for this new enter
prise. A chapel and a branch of the
mayoralty will be established therein,
so that the civil and religious marriages
can take place under the same roof. A
superb restaurant and a spacious ball
room for the ensuing festivities will also
form part of the establishment. Car
riages, lawyers, priests, suppers, nay,
even the wedding tinery, will be fur
nished by this enterprising firm. If
only they add a marriage agency, such
as seems to thrive in several parts of
Paris, to their matrimonial facilities,
says a Paris correspondent, the whole
affair will be perfect, only lacking an
American branch for divorces to carry
out the idea to its fullest extent.-NcW
York Erening Nail.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
WIT AND WISDOM,
from the Detroit Free Press.l

IT is given for solemn factthat a hired
girl i'll Savannah tainted dead away be-
cause she broke a tea-cup. 1t may be
true 1t may be that she hadn't a
chance TO hide the pieces.
FLORIDA papers report an almost to-
tai failure of the sponge crop, while
Northern free-lunch saloon clerks say
that there are more sponges around this
fall than they ever saw before.
IT takes 'em half an hour to get the
big English cannon ready to fire, and
by that time a fellow could dodge, heel
it around the corner and tuck himself
away in a dry-goOds box.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY has just issued
"the smallest Bible in the world"
One as small as a three-cent piece would
be too cumbersome for some men to
carry around.
A DULUTH assessor says it is positive
ly amazing how cheap property be-
comes as he passes up or down a street.
1t falls seventy per cent. whenever he
enters a house.
LONGFELLOw is working at a new
poem. He has rewritten it forty times
or more, but he can't get it to suit, and
be is too proud-spirited to adopt Child's
style and make the name 'Alice"
rhyme with "Constantinople."
"GRAss-wIDOw" has been corrupted
from "Grace-widow," meaning a di-
vorced wife, or a widow by the grace
of the law.-Bostsn Post. Wrong, old
boy. Susan B. says it means a woman
who was green enough to marry.
BRIGHAM You've says that a woman
who can't make a dress out of eleven
yards of cloth will find Heavens gate
too narrow for her to enter. However,
Detroit women will use from eighteen
to twenty yards and run the risk of
squeezing through the gate or of finding
a ladder to 90 over the walls.
ABOUT these times the sentimental
maiden wanders forth to gather the
golden leaves. As she picks them up
one by she s~oliloquizes: cob.
falling leaves, he that passeth by may
read Il lesson in your falling. You are
typical of human life. Your mission
accomplished, the cold hand Of
wo-o-o that big dead caterpillar
woweh,"
AFTER eating dinner at one of the ho-
tells yesterday a man purchased Il cigar
at the office, and, reaching over into
the toOth-pick glass, he pulled up one
of the little splinters and scratched it
on the wall. He tried Il second, third,
fourth and fifth, and, finally becoming
discouraged, he called Il bell boy, hand
ed him Il nickel and said: "%IIere, go'n
get me some old-fashioned matches. [
fused to these ~new-fangled notions"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
The Canary Bird as a Household Pet.

The season for obtaining canary birds
has come again. Almost every steamer
that arrives from Europe has a lot on
board, consigned to the dealers in those
wonderful little sOngSters. 1t is won
derfui that 50 little Il throat is capable of
such 4 volume of sweet sound. There
are two or three simple suggestions that
may not be out of place concerning the
cost and care of a bird. First Il plain
wire cage is preferable to any other, be-
cause it is easier to keep clean, vermin
will not infest it, and it is more beauti-
full than painted or wooden cages are,
and not much more costly. Second, q
bird will cost from three to five dollars.
1t is difficult to select a good bird from
4 lot, because you cannot distinguish
the quality of his notes among so many;
you must rely upon the Judgment and
honesty of the dealer. You do not want
a loud singer with Il piercing note. The
birds that are offered for sale at
this season are mostly young birds,
therefore select one with a soft voice;
he will increase in volume and power of
song as he grows older. Do not hang
him in Il draft of air. He will bear the
outdoors air, but not where a current of
air blows upon him. His food should
be plain canary and rape seed, with
fresh water and a bath daily, or at Your
convenience. We have Il bird that we
purchased last autumn that has not
missed a day of song during the year.
He is now moulting; his coat is as rag
ged as that of a tramp. All his tail
feathers, save n OF two, are gone, but
he sings as sweetly and cheerfully as
ever. We feed him absolutely nothing
but the seed we have spoken of. There
are four things, yea, five, that a bird
will do in a family. He will give the
little girl, eight or nine years old, a few
minutes lesson in tender, loving care
each day. He will settle a dispute or
a quarrel by drowning the voice of con-
.tention in the voice of song. He will
drive away the blues, thereby saving a
doctors bill and helping digestion. He
will awaken the household with a con-
cert at sunrise, and fill the house with
his happy spirit all day long. There
will be at least one cheerful fellow in
doors when all the rest are sad.-E1-
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
The Sierras In Winter.

Snow. Everywhere. As far as the
eye could reach-tifty miles, looking
southwark from the highest white peak.
Filling %ravines and gulcheS, and drop
ping from the walls Of canyons in white
shroud-like drifts, fashioning the divid-
ing ridge into the likeness of Il mon
strous grave, hiding the basis of giant
pines, and completely covering young
trees and larches, trimming with porce-
lain the bow-like edges of still, cold
lakes, and undulating in m%otionless
white pillows to the edge Of the distant
horison. Snow lying everywhere over
the California SierraS on the 18th day of
March, 1913, and still falling.
1t had been showing for ten days;
showing in finely granulated powder, in
damp, spongy flakes, in thin, feathery
plumes; showing from Il loaded sky
steadily, showing tiercely, shaken out
of purple-black clouds in white tloccu-
lent masses, or dropping in long level
lines like white lauceS from the tumbled
and broken heavens. But always silent
"! The woods were SO choked with
it, the branches were so laden with it.,
it had so permeated, filled and possess
ed earth and sky; it had SO cushioned
and mutfled the ringing rocks and echo
ing hills that all sound was deadcned.
The strongest gust, the f~ierce>t blast
awoke no sigh or complaint from the
snow-packed, rigid files of forest. There
was no cracking of bough nor crackle
of underbru>h; the overladen branches
of pine and fir yielded and gave way
without IL sound. The silence was vast,
mcasurele>s, complete!-From "Ga-
drtel Comroy," Gy Bret Hartc, IN N0rcm-
Der ScrijnCr'S.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
A Strange People in Central Africa.

In Crimi, at Suna, we discovered a
people remarkable fortheir manly beau
ty, noble proportions, and nakedness.
Neither man o boy had either cloth
or skins to cover his nudity; the women
bearing children boosted of only goat
skins. With all their physical beauty
and fine proportions they were the most
suspicious people we had yet seen. 1t
required great tact and patience to in
duce them to part with food for our
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29

cloth and beads. They owned no chief,
but respected the injunctions of their
elders, with whom | treated for permits
sion to pass through their land. The
permission was reluctantly given, and
food was begrudgingly sold, but we
bore with this silent hostility, and l took
great care that no overt act on the part
of the expedition should change this
suspicion into hatred.-Stanley's Letter
TO the NCW York Herald,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
Oaaiei Webster's Friend.

He wasn't such an old man, but his
face was very sad, his hair was long,
and he was bent over. He entered Il
store on Jefferson Avenue Saturday, and
after warming his hands at the stove he
inquired Of the proprietor:
"Will you give me Il little advice?"
81 guess SO; what is it?" was the
cheerful reply.
The stranger backed up to the stove,
wiped his nose on his hand, and after a
moment continued:
eff you wanted to die would you jump
into the river or take pizen?"
"Well, l don't know about that. |
guess I'd rather live on than do either
Il Why, do You feel like dying?" "a
81 do, mister!" said the man in q
deep-toned voice. eyes, I've staid
around long enough"
whats the matter?-why do YOU
want to die?" questioned the merchant.
"What's there to live for?" demand
ed the sad man. "There hain't no such
times as there used to be-no such men
rs there nee was"
"Well, the times are a little hard,
but there's lots of good men left, |
guess"
"Purty good, maybe" said the old
man as he felt the s]tovepipe, "but |
can't 'sociate with 'em! After a man
has knocked around with Daniel Web
stcr and Henry Clay he can't come
down on 4 level with these everyday
plugs and feel good"
did You associate with those men?:''
"DidI? I've shaken hands with CLAY,
Calhoun and Patrick Henry more times
than you've got hairs on your head"
"IOu have, eh?:'
"And | knew Gincral Lafayette and
all those f~ellcrs, and now to have to
come down on Il par with these no-ac-
counts is killing me by inches. l don't
care if | die to-night.n
4 guess YOU could get along if YOU
tried hard,' said the sarcastic mer-
chant.
"You're a brazcn image" exclaimed
the old man, splitting on the stove with
great vigor. Il am as far above such
suntlower men is you are as the eagle
is above the chipmunk.'
"You get out of here!" said the
merchant. "You are an ignorant old
d~runkard."
Il am, ch?n shouted the old man,
and he backed the merchant we a box
Of palm-leaf fans. The clerks hauled
him off and threw him out of doors,
and us the police took him the cid man
aid:
"I'm ready to die! Daniel Webster
is up there with the angels, and | hear
him calling me to get out o this one
horse crowd".-DetrOu Free Press.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29

prove that there can be no reservation
of lands occupied by Indians. Upon
this technical question of law the case
seems to hnnr.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29
StanIey's Adventures in Africa.

here, and the sick-list numbered thirty.
Here, also, Edward Pocock fell serious
ly i'll of typhoid fever. For his sake, It's
we'll as for the other sufferers, | halted
in Suna four days; but it was too evil
dent that the longer we stayed in their
country the natives regarded us with
less favor, and it was incumbent on us
to move though much against my in
clination. There We're many grave
reasons why we should have halted
several days longer, for Edward Pocock
was daily getting worse, and the sick
list increased alarmingly; dysentery,
diarrhea, chest disease, sore feet, tasked
my medical knowledge to the utmost;
but prudence forbade it. The rear
guard and captains of the expedition
were therefore compelled to do the
work of carriers, and every soldier for
the time being was converted into a
pagazi, or porter. Pocock was put into
a hammock, the sick and weakly were
encouraged 10 90 thelr utmost TO move
on with the expedition to more auSpi-
cious lands, where the natives were less
suspicious "llere looo was more apuii-
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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29

WHEN a man has to settle cash or
property on a woman before she will
marry him no one can blame him for
going out behind the old %tannery in his
old age and asking the autumnal winds:
why in thunder didn't some one kick
me Over a meeting-house?"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-29

An heir to the estate of Abbotsford,
in England, was born recently in the
person Of Walter Hope Scott, who is
the great-great-grandson of Sir Walter