The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-03-17
Pacific SIopers.

moral. i here las not Dech uAuHA
arrested for over month.
The Enterprise says quartz ledge
has been discovered near OreGon City.
What good is quartz ledge!
The Est1.naer contains an advertise
ment of San estray mare, 25 hands high
having with her ycarling colt two
years old.' The Ilainoedler thinks
the mare has been taken to the Gem
tennial, where she certainly should be.
Sixteen persons united with the Pres
byterian church of Corvallis Sunday
before last. Eight were received upon
profession OF faith, and eight upon Ger.
tificatcs, making in all % who have
joined this church since the list of JAM
uary.
Last week a little son OF ] ohm Clemens
one mile north of Roseburg, was leap
ing with broomstick, when it broke,
throwing him on one arm in such .
manner as to break one OF the bones of
the fore arm in two placesa nj dislocate
the wrist joint.
u. S. land office transactions at Rose.
burg for the month of February, 1876:
| II homestead entries, including 2,076
acres; 2 final homestead entries, including
240 acres; cash entries, including 595
acres; 8 donation certificates issued, 97S
acres; 24 declaratory statements filed.
Tuesday of last week, as Edwin
Smith and son of George Shambrook,
of Coles valley, were crossing the river
at that pace in a skitf,, it floated againtt
the ferry rope and was thrown over.
Mr.. Smith was drowned, and tho boy
only saved his life by the utmost pres-
ence of mind.
All along the Chehalis river, and in
many places on the shores of Gray's
harbor, there are immense Groves ofthe
very finest fir, spruce and cedar timber
that can be put into boom anywhere
on tie bay, for about So per thousand.
The bar at the mouth OF the bay, can
always be crossed by vessels of no more
than Il feet draught.
During eight months past the Belle
Peek mine in War Eagle district. Idaho,
has yielded $4,000, and during a con-
siderable portion of this time there wero
less than ten men employed. Tho mine
has been worked under very favorable
circumstances, the ledge being EMBEDDED
i'll the earth material that was easily
handled, requiring the use of but very
small quantity OF powder.
While crossing the Moiave river at
Fish Pond the California mail stage
was swept down the river one thousand
rods, drowning two horses and sbmner-
ging the mail totally all night. 1t ar
rived at Prescott at Z. Nj. on the 10th.
Mr.. Ware, one of the proprictors OF
the steam sash ard door factory at Cor
wallis, had the misfortune to meet with
very painful accident. While work
ing at the planer Mr.. Ware, by some
means, let his left hand come in contact
with the plane bit, and the result was
that the index finger was almost sever a
at the second joint. it holding together
j by small strip Of flesh.
The wagon road TO Tiilamook is III a
mis- cradle condition and has been i'm
passablc for horse rome time. 10 il
Intended to make repairs and put il IL.
good repairs as soon as possible, but like
all other work, we suppose this will b.
dependent on the state of the weather
tor its execution. The mail carrier, at
last accounts, thought he would attempt
the next trip OH horseback.
The Reporter says: The bridge
across the 1amhill river is not safe for
man or beast to cross upon. The drifts
which have borne against it at different
times during the winter have ut last
torn out several piling from the
bent on the cast cid of the draw and
the superstructure hangs together Oh its
own weight just ready to go down at
the least start. 1t cannot be repaired
for some time, and there should he some
means of warning supplied there before
a terrible accident betalls some passenger
that is not aware of the situation.
On Saturday, sixty ki,nls of winter
wheat, and twenty kinds OF spring
, wheat, together with several different
: kinds of oats, specimen of hemp, oil
and lint flax, red clover, timothy, bnrk-
wheat (Silver hulled) millet, spring and
winter rye, and four kinds of barley,
: were added to the collection OF grain TO
be sent from Olympia to the Centennial
Exposition.
The Walla Nalla people fear they
will have a short peach crop this year,
there having been some very cold
weather in that section recently.
The Walla Walla& Columbia River
II. II. Co. has raised the freight tariff
on its narrow gauge, and the shippers
talk of going back to prairie scllooners
Brigham Young has promulgated ~
edlct decfeeing JhaG there shall hence
forth be no round dances indulged in b)
tie faithful; and, moreover, that all BALI
shall begin at 2 o'clock iii the afternoon
and close by 10 in the evening.
Nineteen hundred dozen eggs wer,
shipped from Walla Walia last week
Custer says, 'syou can't civilize al
Indian any more than you can teach :
rooster to lay goose eggs"
The Montana people have. petitionet
{ ongress to have the Columbia rive
improved so that salmon can get up.
Six head of horses were stolen from
the ranch of b. f. Stone, near Wall.
WalIa. on the night of the 9TH inst.
Daniel Drew, tho great spcculatoi
who has heen principal operator 0
Wall street for thirty years, has file
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