The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-09-15
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Cholera fnfantum is visiting stayton.
County court in session this week at
Corvallis.
The switch at Forest Grove is 900 feet in
length.
McMinnville sidewalks are badly ''usu-
fructed'
Crops in Kings Valley are 20 per cent,
ahead of last year,
The Corvallis City Hotel was dedicated
last Wednesday week.
Nearly all the pleasure seekers have left
Yaquina Bay.
The matrimonial market is very dull i'll
/ Yanlhill county.
The water works at Corvallis are now in
fine working order.
Scarlet fever has made is appearance in
Benton county.
i The Aurora Restaurant viii be run as
usual at the State Fair.
The new Senate Chamber at Salem will
| have all the old furniture.
The bridging of the Willamette at Salem
is taking definite shape.
A school OF whales was seen off the
mouth of the CoquiIle on the 30th.
Spring wheat will do better than Fall
wheat this year in Yalnllill comfy,
Yamk ledge on Gaiiee creek, Jackson
county. is showing very good ''color."
The State Agricultural College, at Cor
: wallis, commences on the 21st lust.
Mrs. MAYORS wheat crop near Forest
Grove averaged So bushels to the acre.
Beaver slough. Coos county, is full of
beaver dams, and they are still dauling.
1t is reported that the miners in the Lane
, mine. Coos county, are taking out SO a
day.
Mr.. Fickens' wheat near Hillsboro aver
ages so bushels to the acre and his oats 60.
The mail between Jacksonville and
Brownsborough has been increased 10 semi
? weekly.
3 The road from Forest Grove, via. Will
\ | sons river to Tillamook, is considered
practicable.
According to this years assessment Coos
! county is not so wealthy as '.it used to
! was.''
, A San Francisco pugilistic whisky
: drummer was driven away from McMinn-
vile last week.
Episcopal Church services arc ow Eeld
regularly in Empire City under w. Ii
r Hyde, lay-rea,ler.
,. A tell graph station has been located by
h the West Side Railroad company at til,
a Hillsboro station.
IT The ISthmus Transit railway, Coos coun
1t ty, was sold at sheriff. IS sale last week Il
;. j. w. Bennett.
= The Corvallis hooks squenched al
+" embryo fire in its ineipiency last week
, One bucket did all that.
=, Capt. Cochran & Co. thank the Bento
# county farmers for so quickly subscribing
ir their quota of freight.
" The saw mill at Parkcrsburg, two mile
i from Randolph, Coos county. is cuttin
ar 1900 feet of lumber per diem.
ie new three story judges stand will b
?. soon erected on the HiIlsbore fair grounds
~ and large stock well will be dug.
at Presley jackson and his men threshe
u and sacked $500 bushels of grain in da,
~ last week in Washington county.
- By the burning of barn on the lit
~ y Applegate, containing 75 tons of hay, 81
IS coo were lost to Messrs. Glenn and Carr
son.
On the Goth nit. Maj. Brown resigne
the Office of Recorder OF Empire City. an
j. Hacker was appointed his successor.
he The Coquille Black Sand Gold Mimi
T. Co. have started an engine and pump al
an expect soon to be milIionaires.
5" Miss Josephine White, of Stayton. r
al manned in a comatuse state 80 hours, aft
being thrown from a horse few days ag
When a man launches schoouer on Co
&c Bay. he charters a Saloon. and the bo
tn drink and drink again Ito the never sinh
m OF the claff
,,s The schooner Sarah is the largest sehoo
er that ever entered Yaquina Bay. 81
~ loaded with lumher from the Oneatta mil
eh for San Francisco.
pt Oregon State Agricultural Society offe
"A silver medal for the best acre of Orego
hops. and SO for the best 200 pound ba
les of hops aud So for the next best.
M Hayden s. Lincoln. of San Francisc
Les offer $40 to be awarded at the coming Sta
Fair for the best 10 pounds of hops, grow
cured aud pressed in Oregon.
Mr.. Horning, of Benton county. rails
1000 gallons of Lawton blackberries tI
an year. which he sold for so cents gallo
The editor of the Hillsboro Lsdepenae
- bought COW the other day and the peor
~ around Hilisboro are puzzled to kno
on where he got the money. as no safe h
=. been robbed in the place for several week
Mr.. Layton. of Jackson county. is ri
'ie ing 10 mile mining ditch from Williar
an creek to the placer mines on Farris guile
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