The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-11

for lard and bacon.
There are 60 tons of hay stacked at
the Wal'a Wall Post.
John SWEET had leg crushed by
log, near Snohomish, last week.
Richard Woods, Sheriff of Vancou-
yer Island, died last Saturday.
Cows in the streets OF Victoria are be-
coming great nuisance.
James Welch, of Gardiner, Doug'as
county, is the latest victim to the buzz
saw. His hand was terribly cut up.
Some Dallas spnrtsmen who, "having
been there, !" report g Moose lake. Is be-
ing nothing but frog pond.
Charles Abraham, while working
last week on his new schooner at Gar
diner, had his left arm broken by a fall.
Mr. Beard, the driver Of stage out
of Roseburg, was kicked by horse in
the eye, making terrible wound.
A weeping willow was about all that
was left at the landing below Spring
vile by the late flood.
It Is reported that the p. NJ. S. s. Go.
are anxious to abandon the Australian
line.
The corner stone of the Metropolitan
Temple in San Francisco, was laid on
the 5th inst.
Eight new cases of smallpox were re-
ported at the San Francisco health office
on the 9th inst.
A trapeze performer named Serans,
fell in the Belle Union Theatre, San
Francisco. and died on the 9th.
John Sim, of the jacket mine of Elko.
killed himst If on the 5th on account Of
sickness and misfortune.
Mrs. McPheters, of Elko, while bath
ing with some ladies in the Humbolt.
got beyond her depth on the 18th and
was drowned.
Hon. A. n. Richards was sworn in
as &c vernon OF British Columbia on the
28th nit.
The smallpox is raging on board F.
NJ. S. s. Repulse, Victoria, and several
officers and men have already died.
Some timber young fellows of Cor
wallis are about to organize a Turn
Verein Society.
A man named Emery, married but
a week, living at Etna, CAL, shot his
wife while she was at the table, and
then shot himself.
There are fourteen Chinese lepers iT
the San Francisco hospital, and twelve
more IN the city, who will be sent bach
to China.
The Spiritualists of the State viii
hold campmeeting, commencing Sep
/ ternber 1st, at Rock Island, five mile
above Oregon City.
A fire broke out on the 5th, on thu
southwest corner of I4eidesdortf anG
Commercial streets, San Francisco. do
ing considerable damage.
Sexton beat Carrier III the San Fran
cisco Billiard tournament by 206 poans
IN 600, an the 5.h Best run by Sexton
I20. Sexton's average, Is.
| ]. w. Pearson, ex x-treasurer of tn
Trojan mine, will be prosecuted and a.
attempt made to compel him to disgurg
what he is alledged To nave stolen from
the company.
The funerals of persons who Law
died 6' smallpox, in San Francisco, will
not be attended by others thar the fam
lily OF deceased, by order of the Boar
OF Health.
The race on the Oakland track, on III
5th, between Gold Note, Dan Vorhec
Mary How ard, Defiance and chicag,
was won by Voorhees, in three straigt
heats. Best time 2:25.
The giant powder works at San Fra,
cisco were destroyed by FIRE on the It'll
Michael Welch, qaartermaster of Il
steamer Ancon, confessed, at San Fral
cisco OH the 7th, to have stolen gol
bars. Amount Of 81 200 was found q
e his person.
: Considerable excitement has bee
$ caused by the discovery of some rio
placer .diggings on Min creek in Il
4 foot hills of the Sierra Nevadas, son
!. thirty miles from Fresno.
4 Two Chinamen came near carvif
one another into poaud pieces a. ltos
n burg last week. They were not arres
ed, through hope they may meet aga
: aud yet succeed.
. Mr.. Slirnmins, of Schofeld, Doug
;. county, while temporarily derrapge
"girded up his loins'' and took prov
y ing stroll. His wife soon captured hi
20 aud new has him under her eye.
A new wharf boat will be built
= Cello about the first of October, viii
ol will be 100 feet long, 70 feet beam, .
e 81 in the hold. II will supply the pls
Of the wharf buildings thai were lata
&c swept away.
y Capt. Laban Buoy, Al, old resident