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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

The Russians have gone mad over
Patti again. At Moscow. recently, the
receipts on the opening night were
81. 500, and when it is stated that IN the
course of the evening she was called
before the curtain no less than sixty
times. and that upward of two thousand
bououets were showered upon her. some
idea may be formed of the triumph she
achieved. At the conclusion of the
onera Madame Patti was presented with
f;ve splendid stars of rubies and dia-
monds. together with magnificent or
nament consisting entirely OF large
brilliants.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

From the accounts given lii the book
of Chronicles relative to the gold and sill
yer gathered by David for the building
of the temple, writer in a Boston
paper concludes that the precious met
ais existed in the days of David and
Solomon in fabulous quantities as, after
reducing the talents and drachms of the
ancients to dollars and cents, it appears
that the contributions exceeded SIS, ,000.-
600. 900.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
THE MoUNrALN MEADOW HORROR.

TIE MOUNTAIN MEADOW HORROR.
{ A Salt Lake dispatch says ga
statement published here. purporting
to be description of the Mountain
Meadow rassacre, by Rachel, wife No.
of John D. Lee, states that at the
time of the massacre, Lee was living
at Fort Harmony, as an Indian farmer
under Brigham Young, who was then
Governor and Superintendent of Indian
Affairs in this Territory; that these
emigrants poisoned spring at Corn
Greek, and an Indian and some stock
died therefrom that the Indians then
rallied, followed the train, and. not-
withstanding all the efforts of the
Mormons, the party was surrounded by
Indians !; that, after several days
fighting, Lee induced the emigrants to
surrender their arms to him in two
wagons, with which he started for
Cedar City, telling them TO follow for
protection, soon after which he heard
firing and sounds Of the massacre. The
statement comes through Lees attor-
ney."
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
PERILs oF rHE ArLANrIo.

There is no great thoroughfare of
commerce or of human intercommuni-
cation on the globe so beset with dan
ger and difficulties as the voyages
from New York to Liverpool. The
Gulf Stream brings current of warm
waterf fifty miles wide and Thousand feet
deep-and flowing at the ordinary cur
rent of q river from the tropical seas,
and pours it out in a vast expanding
mass over and beyond the banks of
Newfoundland, where it turns to the
eastward, and finally loses itself in the
Northern seas while to the westward
of it counter current coming down
from Bafdn's bay-a current of nearly
equal magnitude and force-pours into
it a stream of icebergs, ice-foes, and
ice-cold water. The effects of this con-
fluence are, beneath the water, the ac-
cumulation of vast deposits of sand and
rocky debris, brought down by the ice,
and in the atmosphere above an almost
perpetual succession of fogs and mists
and driving rains, accompanied by
gales and squalls.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
HOW THEY TREAT GRAssRopPERs

HOW THEY TREAT GRASSROPPERS
IN CHINA.
The local authorities, whether civil
or military, are held responsible for the
stamping out of these insects as
soon as their appearance has been re-
ported. They are required to summon
large body of men, and at once sur
round and destroy the locusts, the ex-
penses of the maintenance of the men
and compensation for crops trodden
down during the chase being furnished
by the provincial treasury. Should the
local authorities succeed in stamping
out the locusts within q limited time,
their services are favorably reported to
the Emperor; but should they fail, and
the locusts spread and do damage, they
are liable to be deprived of their posts,
arrested and handed over to the proper
board for punishment. A certain sum
per bushei is paid to peasants for bring
ing in unwinged locusts, and half that
sum when the locusts are able to fly,
while compensation is given for crops
trodden down in the chase. The To-
Gusts are swept with besoms into the
trenches dug at the sides of the corn
fields, in which a vigorous fire is kept
up. The best time to capture locusts
is when they are feeding, at dawn of
day, when, their bodies being heavy
and their wings wet with dew, they are
unable to jump or fly. If the Western
States, or any part of them are to be
visited in future as they have been of
late years, some system of defense will
have to be adopted. Under existing
circumstances, the use of men in large
bodies is impracticable, and the inge-
nuity of inventors or scientists is our
only hope. The prospect, it must be
confessed, is not very cheering, for the
vast uninhabited regions afford breed
ing grounds which effectually defy all
attempts at determination.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
TIE LION IN HIS OLD AGE.

When q young lion reaches the age of
two years ne is able to bring down a
horse or an OK and so he continues to
grow and increase in strength till he
reaches his eighth year, when his tai ms,
teeth and name are perfect, and he grows
no more. For twenty years after he ar
rives at maturity his talons and fangs
show nosigns ofdecay, but after that he
grows !" chubbish. He is no longer a
match for the tremendous buffalo he
prowls around the cattle kraals, and
snatches lamb or kid. just as he did
when ne set out with his parents, nearly
thirty years before. A woman or q
child at night shares the same fate. His
strength and sight now decline mere
and more, till the mighty lion grows
lean and NANCY, and crawls about from
place to place, eating any offal he can
pick up, and despising not even so small
an animal as the field mouse and he
staryes and dies, or is fallen on and
slaughtered by few cowardly hyenas
or is discovered, unable to move, be-
meath tree, and knocked on the head
by some wandering Kaffir.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

AT Point Pleasant, w. Va, on the 9Th
inst, Capt. 81. McDaniels was fred
upon and instantly killed by a man
named Wetzel. from window Of his
residence. Wetzel surrendered himself
to the Sheriff and is now in Jail. He
claims in justification of the deed that
McDaniels was criminally intimate with
his wife.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

A. l.. STRoSa, of Easthampton, Mass,
former Sheriff Of Hampshire county,
has absconded, leaving scores of cred
itors and deficit of $50. 900. 1t is
said that the first wicked thing this.
man did was to deliver stolen speech
in the Massachusetts Legislature.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

THE Rev. DR.. Manning, of Boston,
said in sermon THE more we read
the newspapers the less accurate and.
comprehensive is our knowledge of the.
actual condition of the world, which,
is evidence that the Rev. Doctors read
ing is confined to the Boston papers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

have HERETOFORE been discovered. One
fragment, that appears to have been red
wood, measured eleven feet in diameter,
and is 81 feet long. The tree must
originally have been two hundred feet
in length. Numerous other specimens
ranged from eight to eleven feet in
diameter. "a
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

A GIGANTIC engine on the Pennsyl
vania railroad has made its trial trip
successfully. on which occasion it
trundled along comfortably with one
hundred and forty loaded cars, weigh
ing 2,252, 900 pounds, making train
one-third of mile long. The engine
itself weighs A tons.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

Taunton, 1915, 600 decrease, $111,-
763. 25; Lynn, 81, ,s49, 6O5 Al not stated
Holyoke. 1892, ,221.5o; increase, $2,-
809. 43; Newburyport, $49O. 600; de-
crease, $6,278.60; Haverhill, $780,
416.95; decrease, $36, ,541.37; Fall
River. 81, ,444. O47.23; not stated /;
Springfield. 81, 794, 875; rot stated /;
Lowell, So. 189, 600; not stated New
Bedford, $1,O97, 900; not stated !;
Gloucester, $2O2. .O43. .43; decrease,
$40, 221. 48.-Bosto,a advertiser.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
TIE CATTLE INTEREST OF TIL
UNITED STA TES

TIE CATTLE INTEREST OF THE
UNITED STATES
Increase the aptitude to fatten and in
average weight has been continuous
and marked during the last half centu-
ry. Since 1877 there have been i'm
ported into North America nearly, if
not quite, one thousand well-bfed ami
mails for stock improvement, mainly the
Bodybuilding short-horn but also many
of the best specimens of the. Ayrshire
for quantity of milk; the Jersey and it's
congeners of the Channel Islands, for
richness of cream and quality of but
ter the black and white Dutch, Dew
ons, Herefords, and other breeds. not
excepting the fat COW of Brittany. So
great has been the success of this at
tempted improvement, that the cattle
of the central portions of the West have
become h1gh-grade short-horns of in
creased size and superiority of flesh,
with far smaller proportion of offal.
Instead of degenerating, the thorough
breds have been improved by the skill
and care of our wide-awake breeders,
until one family of short-horns, the
Botes stock, has been for years export
ed to England at prices commencing at
50, 900 to $3, 900 each, advancing in a
year or two to $1,000, as appreciation
abroad was intensified, and eliminated
last season at the magnificent figure of
$4O,O0O for an elderly cow, amid the
excitement of competition between the
most skillful breeders of two conti-
nents.
The average weight of importaticns
two and half centuries ago probably
did not exceed 800 pounds in ITO the
average in the London market had been
reported at $40 pounds at the begin
ming of the present century the London
average had advanced to about 500
pounds, and now the official average is
600 pounds for British and 500 for i'm
ported beeves. The stock of this
country, not including that of Spanish
blood, is now nearly up to the British
standard of weight. Chronological
Journal.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

ANNA ELIZA says that thirteen of
Brigham's daughters sat in the front
seats and made faces at her the first
time she lectured.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

DEBTs OF MASSACHUSETTS, CITIES. The
messages of the Mayors give the debts
of the nineteen cities Of Massachusetts,
as follows Boston, $4A, 719. 123. O9 !; in
crease, 81 ,252, $3.50 !: Cambridge, 81
400, 164. %; increase 81, ,O94, 451. Oh ;
Worcester, 81, 984. 750; increase, s43,-
523; Lawrence. 81 ITS. 1O3. IT; increase,
$75S, 107.05; Newton, 1887, 600; de-
crease, $4,000; Fitchburg, $72s,-
s72.84; increase, $4,000; Chelsea,
81, 469, 800; not stated Salem, 81, $685.
722 OF decrease, $S2, ,444 e6; Soner-
vile. 81, AS, ,s54 increase, 1878, 500 !;
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
TIE oLpFAsHroNED MOTHER.

THE 0LDEFAsHT0NED MOTHER.
Thank God some of us have had an
old fashioned mother. Not woman
of the period, enameled and painted,
with her great chignon, her curls, and
hustle, whose white, jeweled hands
never felt the clasp of baby fingers !;
but dear, old-fashioned. sweet-voiced
mother, with eyes in whose clear depths
the love light shone, and brown hair
just threaded with silver lying smooth
upon her faded cheek. Those dear
hands, worn with toll, gently guided
our tottering steps in childhood, and
smoothed our pillow in sickness, ever
reaching out to us in yearning tender
ness. Blessed is the memory of an old
fashioned neither. It floats to us now,
like the beautiful perfume from some
wooded blossoms. The music of other
voices may be lost, but the enhancing
memory of hers will echo in our soul
forever. Other faces may fade away
and be forgotten, but hers viii shine
on. When in the ftful pauses of busy
life our feet wander back to the old
homestead, and, crossing the well worn
threshold, stand once more in the
room so hallowed by her presence, how
the feeling of childish innocence and
dependence comes over us, and we
kneel down in the molten sunshine,
streaming through the open window
just where long years ago we knelt by
our mothers knee, lisping, "Our
Father" How many times when the
tempter lured us on has the memory of
those sacred hours, that mothers words,
her faith and prayers, saved us from
plunging into the deep abyss of sin.
Years have filed great drifts between
her and us, but they have not hidden
from our sight the glory OF her pure,
unselfish love.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-21
Healthy Social Condition of England.

Horace White, Of the Chicago Tribune,
writes from England in corrobo ration OF
the experience OF the editor of tue
News win her people. He says that her
home industries have enormously in
creased within 20 years, paupefism has
diminished, and she has already COM
menced a sy stem OF common school ed
ucation which she makes compulsory.
Her taxes are ridicuiously low in com
parison with those of this country. Her
people are remarkably tariIty and eco
nomical, and even her rich people do not
squander their money in eXtravagant
displays like our tradesmen and me-
chanics. Mr.. White thinks Americans
VINO rush through London on their way
to Paris makea great Mistake, and have
mo idea what superior magniticence in
parks and other public grounds, and
other attractive objects they leave be-
hind. And he is satisfied that in many
respects England is more republican
than MISUNDERSTANDING News.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-21
Musical Education In Our Schools.

How is this great power OF music to
be controlled and brought to bear most
directly, most efficiently, ON our people
That nation is the best educated in
which knowledge is most diffused, in
which the results of learning are within
the grasp OF the greatest number. Only
so far as any art or science becomes a
part Of popular education can that art
or science become a power, an influ-
ence in a land. Ot the growing
desire among our people for high
er musical education we have many signs
in the frequency OF festivals and choral
unions and the number of musical asso-
Citations. We Americans are conglom-
crate race, made up Of the best OF every
people under the sun, so transfused that
the origin of even single family can
scarcely he traced without an element of
Celtic or Teutonic race discovering
itself. Perhaps this is the source
OF the musical taste so widely spread
among us as people. We say taste,
not culture; we are not yet culti-
waited people IN any true sense. As o
national characteristic, to be song and
music lovers belongs to the Irish and
German races rather than to the Saxon.
1t is rare to find German or an Irish
girl without an ear for music. In our
Western States and centres OF popnla-
ton, the Germans instinctiyely gather,
in remembrance of the fatherland, into
Sangvereins, preserving the songs and
musical traditions Of the old iand. while
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-21

they welcome gladly anything fresh and
worthy from the new. The marvellous
achievements of the school festivals in
the Music Hall in Boston are largely
due to the fine voices, the quick percep-
tion, of the Irish, either by birth or
descent, who constitute majority OF the
pupils in our public schools.
No one thing has done more for music
in the past twenty years than It's intro
duction as an integal part OF our common
scnool education. In the large cities
and suburban towns little seems left to
desire in that direction. From the time
children at the age Of five enter the prl-
mary school till at the age OF sixteen or
eighteen they graduate from the high or
normal school, music Is as much part
OF their training as the multiplication Ia
Bile and spelling-book. The next gener--
alton will see what what we foresee, and
reap the harvest this generation Is SO
wisely sowing.
II, as we contend, music Is in itself pu-
rltying and elevatiny, if 1T can displace
and crowd out baser pleasures by giving
innocent recreation aud excitement to a
people that must be amused, people
who must be busy for good or evil, we
can not have too much OF it. 1t can not
enter too largely or 100 deeply into the
system of common-school education.
Ellis Gray, in Harpers Magazine ior
October.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-21
Marco POlO's Account OF the First Pape
Money.

| 1t is now nearly 500 years since Marco
Polo, the great traveller, wrote. the fol-
| lowing description OF the paper money
| he came across in the domains OF Tue
| Grand Khan:
In this city of Kapbalu is the mint OF
| the Grand Khan, who may truly be SAID
| to possess the secret of the chemists, as
| he has the art Of producing money ny
| the following process: He causes the
| bark to be stripped from those mulberry
trees, the leaves of which are used for
feeding silk worms, and which takes
| from it that thin inner rind which lies
| between the coarser bark and the wood
of the tree. This being stepped and al
| terward pounded in a mortar until, re-
duced to a pulp, is made into paper, re-
sembling in substance that which is
manufactured from cotton, but quite
black. When ready for use he has IL cut
into pieces of money of different sizes,
nearly square. but longer than they are
wide. Of these the smallest pass for
denler tOurnos; the next size for a
Venetian silver groat; others for TWO,
live or ten groats; others for one, two,
and as TAR as ten Desa MS of gold. Inc
coinage of this paper money is authen-
ticaLeu with as much form aud ceremony
as If it were actual gold and silver, for
TO each note d NUMBER OF officers, spe-
cialy appointed, not only subscribe
their names but atlix their signets also,
anu wheA tlis mas been regularly done
by the whoie of them, the principal otii-
Ger, deputed by his Majesty, having
dipped into vermilion the royal seal
committed to his custody, stamps with
it the paper, 50 that the form OF The seal
hinged with yermiion remains i'm
uressed upou IT, Dy which it receives full
authenticity as current money, and Ine
act Of cOunterieiling IL is punished as IA
capital ottense. When thus coined in
large quantities, this paper currency
is circulated III every part OF the Grand
khan's domain, nor uares amy person,
at the peril OF his life, refuse TO accept II
in payment. All his subjects receive ii
without hesitation, because whenever
their business may Gail them, they can
dispose OF it again i'll The purchase OF
mercnaudise they may have occas ion
for, such as pearls, jewels, ,gold or silver.
With it, i'll SNORT, every article may be
procured.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-21
A Word About Our COrn.fodder Crop.

Our Western friends have little idea
| OF the value which eorn-fodder has IN
the eyes of the Eastern man. he simply
estimates how many bushels of corn he
has TO the acre, and then wonders how
an Eastern man with a less yield than
he has, poorer land, and high rent and
taxes, can make the corn crop pay. But
the difference, besides. OF course, prox-
unity to market, is in the value to MIN
of corn-fodder. In many places quite
as much could be had for field ofgood
corn.fodder as for whole yield or corn.
While the Western man suffers his corn
to remain uncut to the very last moment,
in order to get the fullest ripening 10 the
farthest end OF the year, the Eastern
man cuts his before it is dry, and, as
soon as possible after danger of molding
has passed, without regard to whether
he has obtained the last pound OF grain
possible from the crop. Not only does
the fodder as well as the corn come into
calculation of the profits OF an Eastern
corn crop, but the husks, for cabinet
makers purposes yield considerable
revenue. 1t is Very difficult to get at
the exact profits Of this branch OF corn
product. We have heard farmers say
that it was more profitable TO 1eed
the husks than to save them for
sale; while others contend there ls
great advantage in disposing OF them.
These things enable one to form some
sort of a Judgment as to the value OF
corn-husks. or course the distance from
market will have much TO do with their
value, as we'll as the estimates that may
be placed on them for feeding purposes;
but it all goes to show that there is some
thing more than the mere grain which,
to an Eastern man, gives value to the
corn crop.--Germantown telegraph.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-21
it has entailed upon the victims has
reached every hearthstone and touched
every heart in the country.

ONE Of the special features of the Ex-
position this year is the display of iron
ore and Of other minerals. The special
committee has done excellent work in
the selection and arrangement of ma
terial, and the display will no doubt aid
largely in awakening the fast increasing
interest in the mineral wealth of this
country Until within comparatively
short time the value and Importance OF
our resources In this regard has not been
realized, but through the efforts OF our
most enterprising citizens and manufac-
turers, the outside world is beginning to
recognize, in a practical way, our stand
ing in this regard and to act accord
ingly. England, which has until re-
Gently been the ruler of the world
in the matter of the production of
her mines and the manufacture
OF iron and steel, has been led to admit
the superiority of our supply and tacil-
ity, and to fully realize that the immense
trade, which has been the fountain head
of her prosperity,is gradually failing her,
and is in the same proportion being
transferred to us. Our manufactures
of iron and steel are taking the place of
those of England all over the world, and
our mines are capable of supplying the
markets for an infinite length Of time.
The supply of iron ore in the Southern
States has but recently been developed
or appreciated, but is now attracting the
| attention of capitalists, both In this and
other countries. An account which re-
Gently appeared of an English company
| and their purchases and prospects in
the Southern States, shows the re-
sources OF that region and the value in
which they are held by the English. The
location referred to is in Cook Co., Tenn.
Here the new company of SLockton-upon-
Tees have more than one hundred
thousand acres of iron lands in scattered
divisions, and half as much Of coal. The
iron is of different qualities; the coal is
said to be good, in veins of thirty feet,
and the lumber is not only abundant but
will furnish incidental profit from the
tannin to be gained from chestnut bark.
The factories and furnaces are to be
erected few miles above Bridgeport.
The region belongs to that great and
wealthy section that, skirting all OF
Western Virginia, crosses all OF Eastern
Tennessee, and reaching into Georgia
and Alabama, has already gained new
life since the war, and is every day add
ing to its importance. English capital
and English knowledge and skill are find
ing employment in this very direction in
Northern China, in India, in Africa and
in Australia. Neither the one nor the
other combines SO many inducements
that this country offers; and the great
competition that is to occur for supre-
macy in iron production and fabrication
will admit all the capital and labor here
that seek admittance.