The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-12-15

Olympia, for numbering squaw.
An increased mail service between
Seattle and Laconner is being petition
ed for.
A gay young man of Olympia went
riding in the country, lost his way, and
had to lie out one night.
Mr. VIM. Wagner, of Yelm prairie,
near Seattle, has contract for getting
out 100000 hoop poles.
Jackson Engine Company, of The
Dalles, will give masquerade Christ
mas ball.
Gen. o. o. Howard delivers his
Gettysburg lecture at The Dalles this
week.
James Hart, of The DalIes, was CON-
mitted to jail for assault with a danger
Gus weapon.
No home-drunks in IlilIsboro. The
new city voted against granting any
liquor licenses.
The ladies OF The Dal!es will give a
grand leap year ball at the Cmatilla
House on Friday evening, Dec. 18th.
The O. S. N Co. lave commenced
work on a new boat at Cclilo to take
the place of the Yakima, which is worn
out.
A Judgment for S346 "a and costs
has been obtained against the Umpqua
Academy by late teacher of the insti-
tuition.
During the last ten months GO, 900
head of cattle have been driven from
Eastern Oregon to the different beef
markets of the Pacific coast.
Work on the new boat to take the
berth of the Daisy Ainsworth was COM
meneed at The Dal!cs on the 18th inst.
Fifty or sixty men will he employed.
On the 7th inst. Mr.. Baxter passed
through Tie Dalles with drove of $50
tat hogs, from Wall1 WalIa, destined
s,r Portland and other markets.
y chanrei 100 feet wide and $50
feet in length has been cut iIto the solid
mass of logs that constitute the jam III
the Skagit river.
Duling the ten days preceding Dee.
sth, ss402 head IF cattle were shipped
from I he Dallcs to Astoria. the prices
paiti ranging from s3 to IS 80 per cwt.,
according to quality
On Wednesday evcumg, the 9th inst
the house of j. H. Jackson, of The
Daiies, was totally destroyed by fire.
lie was at church concert when it
took fire. Tie citizens of tl,at city
raise'l $3.50 by lotation for the unior-
tunate man.
II. Zelinsky, of PASSPORT, was thrown
from his horse at Breckmall's up ,hc
LIST. and had his leg broken.
The bulk of the wheat in the Coryal.
lis warehouses has been sold at piice:
, ranging from sc to Sc cents per busllel
The amount of witness fees claimed
iii the case OF the State vs. ~ Emeric<
: i'll Unatilla, for killing Gordon, amount
ell To 1855 20.
tsCoquille Ben" has begun his sec
ond term in the peritertiary for five
/ years. lie goes up this time for steal
ing horse in Benton county.
J The annual meeting of the Ciacka
t mas county Bible Society will be held
at the Congregational church next Sun
, day evening. Rev. Mr.. lIetzel will
g preach sermon suitable for the occa
a sion.
o The farmers of Benton county arr
e very busy blowing and sowing winte
4 wheat large area of wheat will b.
sown within the next week or two
should the weather IemaIn as it is a
II present.
# The Benton Den1ocTt is mistaken il
l. saying that the ''C;overnor heard evi
u dence and arguments OH both sides'' il
II the Watts case. lie heard no evidenc
9 at all, aud arguments only OH the Dem
7. ocratic side.
John Orth picked a piece of gol'
:, ont of one OF the walls of his bricl
building I'D jacksonville, weighiii!
Is about one dollar, it was doubtless mad
q vertently placed there by the bricklayel
= being mixed with the mortar.
!: : More amalgamating pans have bee
added to the Esther mill on GRAY
!. creek. These pans will permit the say
!" ing of all the gold aid silver in the or
i reduced by the mill, and will prove
d great source of profit to the stockhold
d ers.
+ + The Enterprise says: 4 young ma
rs named Shoat, living near Needy,
Clackamas county, has broken out wit
smallpox, and ten or fifteen person
70 have been exposed. The exposed pc
y sons have been placed III quarantine.
n- II iS f.arfain that the smallpox in
= more or less virulent form is prevalel
- = throughout various portions of til
- State, and it behooves every one to pr,
y pare to stand it off Vaccination is
!. !. good preventive aud no one should nes
= lect it.
:. The YamhilI Reporter says: At
= meeting of tho board of directors of ii
:" :. Yamhill and Cape Lookout Wago
- Company, on the I'd inst, it was deci,
i"A " / "a ~ no1,1 nIafe this roaal ct tho Garlic