The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-18

Yamhill county.
The Lucky Queen mill is To have
new machinery.
Plums, hazelnuts and cloudy weather
in Independence.
Wheat brings 6s cents bushel, and
oats 373 at Forest Grove.
The Eugene City bridge will be ready
for the siding next week.
Apples, watermcllons and green corn
are plentiful in Oakland.
The Esther Mining Co. has ordered
new machinery for the mill.
Applegate Bros, of Linkville, are
stacking 100 tons of hay per week.
The Golden Rnle Lodge at Cornelius
is spoken of in the past tense.
A bridge is being built across the
North Yamhill at Smiths crossing.
The saw and grist mills of Dayton
are running to their utmost capacity.
The outlook for the Good Templar's,
at Lafayette, is decidedly 'eazurish.''
The o. S. n. Co.'s machine shops at
the Dalles are as busy as bee hives.
W. r. Singleton has been put under
$500 bonds m Roseburs to keep the
peace.
Mr.. Wing, Of Lewisvilfe, has lost sew
eraf horses lately, supposed to have been
stolen.
II. L. MarEton, Of Castor, had his leg
broken by being run over Oh the TfFIa-
unook road last week.
Mr.. TrpmbulI, of lafayette, has some
corn in his garden measuring nfne feet
fossF inches in length-stalls.
George Munger, of Jackson Company
No I, was elected Chief Engineer of the
Dalles Fire Department.
A heavy and destructive fire is rag.
ing in the timber in the coast range of
mountains west of Roseburg.
The SswteTEe ttoupare playing "Driv-
en- from Home" and tour Country
Cousins in Douglas county.
The young ladies of Glencoe, it is
said, are very partial to lager beer.
The wheat crop around Table Rock,
correspondent informs the Ashland
7sdSsaqs, will be far below the average.
The smallpox has made its appear
ancc on tie Klamath reservation, and
out of five cases two have proven fatal.
Il Some frnit trees were uprooted and q
: great deal of fruit destroyed by a wind
storm IN Wasco county last week.
"Nigger Jenkins" is lecturing in
Washington county on the "Chinese
curse"
Political matters IN Washington Ter.
ritory are warming up. The sage-brush
, ers and the clam-ea'ers are what they
call each other.
Steve Harris, of Forest Grove, has
, got word from Washington that he
will get patent on his plow cleaner
. invention.
The best yield of fall wheat in Wash.
ingEon county, is that of T. ID. Phillips.
who threshed 900 bushel- from 1S acres
Wash. Laughlin, of Yamhili county,
raised some timothy with crania elong-
ated to the extent of twelve inches.
Two RosebuTg girls were canght on
the streets in male attire. 1t is remark
! ed s'they were too Btg for their breech
es."
Five hundred aud sixty gallons o
. black have thus far snapped up
and perhaps popped down, by Lafayette
people.
The minstrel troupe at Jacksonville
last week has turned back for California
not wishing to follow in the wake of th'
;. Sawtelle troupe.
The average Fall crop of wheat, ac
: cording to the Lafayette Courier, vii
. scarcely average twenty-five bushels t
:. the acre in Yamhill county.
Doc. McCully is working in the in
: terests Of Cochrane's proposed steam
boas line. He says Independence ca
9 :. easily pledge 5e,oee bushels of whea
i Montgouery Queen appears to hav
r given up the Ostrich basiness. for he
l. now on his way to this state overlan
re in charge OF tiptop circus company.
The Renizcr threatens to print Il
names of those who frequent Axiom
: saloon, at Dallas.
: The Fall wheat is rather light ne:
Forest Grove this year, the yield ram
j j ing from IS to 80 bushels. The sprir
De wheat will be more than an averal
C. crop.
ot Three black bears have become
troublesome in<the neighborhood of u
as Tmbrie place 10 Washington county th
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