The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-25
Caaesel.s4,ts Lightning.

Josiah Quincy has tailed in Boston
for 100000.
Col. Rufus ingalls, has been ordered
to San francisco.
The escaped I7enians arrived in New
York on tile 10Th ult.
Representative Meade viii serve on
the Chinese commission,
The South Pass .Jetty Co. has widen
ed the Mississippi thus far 40 feet.
p II. Newell, known ii literature as
Orpheus c. Kerr. is on his death bed III
New York
I,e.ore leaving for Long Branch
President Grant decided not TO pardon
amy of tie whisky thieves.
The Norwalk tannery Of Midway,
Mass, was destroyed by nceadiary fire
on the 10Th. Loss $50. .0o0-
The iuternal revenue eaugers will be
gradually reduced by the Internal Rev
enue Commissioners.
The L. :. Il. r. mail service will
meet at st. Louis on the 11th of Ccto
ber
Eighty Chinese boys left Hartford
for Philadelphia on the 21st to visie the
Centennial.
uaeH were drowned by tie up
setting OF the yacht .suIrfo betweeu
Milwaukee aud Chicago.
Heavy merca1tile failures are report
cd in England.
Jnfavorable news concerning Crook
and Terry has been received at W ash
ington, bat is discredited by Sherman.
Franz Prince, of St Louis, in ten
mile swimming match in the Mississippi
beat Tom. Sutcli4f,, of England, by two
minutes
Fires occurred on the 10Th at Ron
daub, y. Y, Portsmouth, Ohio, and
Uhricksville, Ohio, with an average
loss at-each place of $4,000.
Pay Inspector r. Chandler, who was
on duty at San Francisco at the time Of
the Pinnev frauds, has been dismissed
from service by Court Martial.
The Centeunial Exhibition Commis-
sioners have agreed to charge half prices
every Saturday; so, 900 attended on the
18th, the Inauguration of the scheme
Jesse Magers, accused of participat.
ing in the Otterville train robbery, says
he can prove an alibi, and that the con
fession of Cobbs Kerry is a tissue o
falsehoods.
:. An attempt was made to wreck the
st. Louis train, near Rochester, on the
10Th, but being discovered by farmer
swinging lantern stopped the train
100 were on the train.
| Hon. NJ. c. Kerr, Speaker of th'
House Of Representatives, died at Rocl
Alum Springs, West Virginia, on tht
10Th inst. of consumption of the bowls
His body will be eabalmed.
t Tie following postal changes hay
l been made: Postmasters appointed
5 B. p. Quincy, Linkville, Lake county
: Oregon; G. S. Sargent, Phsenix, Jack
son county, Oregon; J. L. Weldel
! Slate Creek, Josephine county, Oregon
: r. ID. Hume, Skomokawa, Wahkiakun
: ! county, Washington Territory.
= At the Saratoga races on the 19tf
r the first race was Il mile dash to
ot beaten horses, and was won by Roinmey
II Preston, 2d, Gray Friar, Sd. Tim
g 2.3844 The second race, mile das
n for all ages over two years, had tot
IT starters. Brother to Bassett won, Cou
y ier I'd, Gray Nun Sd. Time. 1:445.
- The Zri6use's Washington specit
j. says NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are hal
RS at work at the Capitol putting up an
:. sending off documents. Scores of fol
y ers, posters and mailers fill the low
= halls and corridors of the House win
= the government paying good share
!" !" the expenses.
!, : Mitchell has succeeded in getting 8
d the Agricultural College Lands in Oh
y. gon approved by tile Secretary of t
ID Interior, except so acres, to which the
ne is conflict.