The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-04-06
Pacific SIopers.

There are 1869 pupils attending puDlic
chooIs in Jackson county.
The landofice, at Roseburg. has been up
is eyes i'll busineas lately.
There will be one thousand acres sown
n grain in Goose Lake valley this season.
3ood.
A Joint stock company will probably
1nild grist mill on Hood river, this sea-
son.
The Dalles NJ. E. Church has new bell
The Hood river peach trees were in full
bloom two weeks earlier this than last
year.
Here's chance for somebody. Bethel,
Polk county, people want store to be es-
tablished there.
VIM. Carl, the blind man. and Prof. r.
NJ. Wood, Intend giving concert at Rose
burg this week.
A deer, with an apparent knowledge of |
the game law, trotted through Jackson
vile last week.
J. J. Thompson, of Eola, has lost five |
children in almost as many weeks from
diphtheria.
The land known as the old Academy
grouad. at Wilbur. was recently sold at
auction to j. w. Wilbur, for $40.
The Monmouth 1fe&aopger tells the peo-
style into their church raiment.
Capt. Thompson is building steam
scow at the mouth of the klickitat to run
between the Dalles and the Cascades.
The hunter remarked Gin hoe signo
vincfs'' and killed n grouse on the sign of
the .Eosonai:: at Eugene City, last week.
The farmers of the Mohawk valley. Lane
county, not wishing the deer to be driven
of, prohibit bounding on their lands
The Dalles Grange has resolved not to
patronze merchants who do not do their
transporting by the independent steam
boats.
Elder u. NJ. Norton, who is preaching
in Douglas county on the second coming of
Christ, is published as humbug, and era
" at that.
Hood river settlement. They are very
sociable people, and haye private theatri-
Gals nearly every week.
| Charles Campbell. of the Dalles. sues J.
Wesley Parker for $4,000 damages TOR Sc
I ducing a wife. Wesley is said to have left
! his bail and skeedaddled.
! John ID. Lee. is the name of a prominent
Dallas merchant. and he doesn't want any
i execution served on him for completely III
! the Mountain Meadow Massacre, either.
Most of the leather tanned at Eugene
! City. is for harness, and is shipped to san
Francisco. where it commands higher
prices than the leather made in California.
Several parties who have cut government
! timber in Douglas county have been in
formed on. and they have retalated by
peaching on others, land the end IS not
yet"
There is considerable excitement in Can
/ yonville now over rich discovery made
lon, TTorpaSSna frl,lr4 nv
the whole town is digging for the dig
gings.
". B. Ramsay is making pottery at
Sheridan. from the best clay he ever work
ed in his life. 4 vessel made of it will
hold s1ch penetrating fluid as coal oil
without being glazed
Some unknown assassin shot through
IL. tloo- of a Chinese cabin on Jackas:
creek. jackson county. last week, sending
the soul of lin Chow on trip up ''th'
, golden stairs.
From present Indications says tb
Dalles No'ot1iaesr. .'we may expect al
immense immigration 10 this side of tht
mountains this season from the Willamette
. valley and California.
A shivering tramp stole Mat Obenehain'
; overcoat at Jacksonville last week. ant
Mat was cruel enough to telegraph to Rose
E burg TO have him arrested should the poo
1 devil dare give the garment an airing.
A Wasco county correspondent of til
Dallas HemizeT SAYS: ''In regard TO til
silver wells, there is silver in nearly all c
;. them. but not much as has been report
:; ell. but our assayer thinks some of ther
:. will pay TO work.
/. A white bnll promenades the streets {
Rosebtug, terror to the red headed pee
pie. He gored and killed E. NJ. Moore
: horse last week, among his many othe
:, playful antics.
s The young ladies' of Callapooia hav
J. agreed not to receive visits from smoker
drinkers. chewers or card players, and no.
sit at home medftating whether it woul
II be breaking their pledge to meet their ol
t. beaux on the boulevards.
|, Last Wednesday, Alex. Gillian. of Da
las. attempted TO throw grubbing hoe
man some distance off when it slippe
X and struck his uncle, A. j. Gillian, vii
the blade in the small of the back just b
= low the left kidney. The wound was
IL severe that Mr.. Gilliam's life is despair,
of.
t. The miners are making the most of Il
late rains on Coyote creek and are takil
out agood deal of dust.
d John Gates ofthe @. s. n Co, has boug
machinery in the East for two more steaI
,e erS to run to Astoria.
n. One hundred families intend leavi
Wataman county, Minnesota, this Sun
s, mer, for Oregon.
OF Thos. Watts lost 300 head of sheep
the Nannteka country during the Winte
The grass there is of a very poor qualit
- - A boy named Badloel1 was riding a ca
CT use last week. when it tel breaking its OF
neck and bruisiDg the boy considerably.
ill All the criminal cases tried at the Il
,c, term of court at Jacksonville grew out
, family troubles. Moral: Become WI
over.
to Sheep can get better support from Q
er acre of alfalfa than twenty acres Of w
pasture, besides producing more and bet
wool. and with fewer losses to lambs.
~ Hinton. who lived near Rock Point,
le- Rogue river. and who has been missing
some time, is now thought to have be
- killed and thrown into the river by Daua
u erty. who was sent to the penitentia
ne last week from Jackson countv.
oi Unexpected rains on the 31st ult., |
put new face on the prospects of I
ID Southern counties of California. B
es keepers estimate the rain has tribbl
~, their honey yield.
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