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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-08-31

SCHOOL DIRFcToR.-Don't forget the
election fo:' school director for this district,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Or. D. NJ. Jones. The election viii be
held at the Central school house on Mon
day afternoon next. We want not only a
competent man, but one who will attend to
the business of the Office promptly and con-
scientiously. Select the very best man and
elect him.
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Another prisoner got out and sk8daalIed
from Jail on Monday.
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6. w. WILCOX,

Homeopathic Physician.
OFFICE with Dr. f. H. Griffin, First street,
~ Albany, oregon. 81 Chronici diseases
specially. 2oVS
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MARREED.

Sabbath afternoon. August 26th. 1877. at
the residence of Taylor Cotton. Albany. by
Rev. It. 3. White, Commodore P. Davis
and Miss Nellie j. Barker.
May their future be long summer
dream
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WINDING UP.-W. H. Dodd s. Co. an
nounee that their copartnership expires by
all notes or accounts of the firm must be
settled by that time, or they will be placed
in the hands of the proper officer for eollec-
finn
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Pictures and Picture Frames.

E. b. PURDOM
Would announce to the citizens of Albany and
vicinity, that he is prepared to furnish all kinds
of PICTURE FRAN Is to order, at short notice.
Pictures framed. and old frames repaired. rap
at his Office on First street, one door west OF
Broadaibin, and leave ynur ortiera ar
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4 positive gent tleman Ger
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A srINsTER lady of fifty years re.
marked lately that she could 60 alone at
six months old. Eyes" said her hateful
half-brother, "and you have been going
alone ever since"
"Why, sammy" said father to his
little son lately, 81 didn't know that
your teacher whipped you Friday" 81
guess" replied Sammy, IL you had
been in my trowsers you'd know'd It,"
JOHN ADAMS wrote in I777: "Gen.
Washington sets fine example. He has
banished wine from his table, and enter.
tains his friends with rum and water
This is much to the honor Of his wisdom,
his policy, and his patriotism"
How many Of you ale there?" asked
a voice from an upper window OF a eere-
nadine party. -Four" was the reply.
Divide that among you" said q voice,
as bucket of slops fell, "like the gentle
dew Of heaven ON those beneath"
SIR JOHN LuBBUcK publishes paper
entitled "Ancient National Monu.
ment," in which he relates the story Of
an irish snobleman who, wishing TO pre-
.erve the remairs of ONeilrs castle at
Castlereagh, directed the agent to build
a wall round the field. The Goth pulled
down the ruins to make the wall.
"Her individuality permeated with
its mixture Of womanly tenderness an
stat uesque classicality the scenes in
which she was Interested" says power
full writer on the New York press. This
Is great improvement on the rolling.
pin female of our course western humor.
- -LOuisrilie Courier. journal.
A BISHOP lately ordained young gen.
tleman as deacon, and then felt 1t neces-
sary to send for the clergyman who had
recommended him. "What may your
lordrhip want with me?" II wish, sir, 70
speak about that young man." "Wbst
young man, your lordships" Tho
young man, sir, whom I ordained.
want you to keep him in check had
great difficulty. sir, in keeping him from
examining me-"
As fond mother when the day is DER.
Leads BY the hand her little child To- bed,
Half willing. half reluctant TO be led,
And leave: hs broken p;Syssns on the h'o
Nor wholly reassured ana comfortfd
By promises Of others in their stead,
Which. thouah more spenuiu may Iot P"sse
him more
50 Nature deals with US. and takes away
Our payihings one by one, and by the hard
Leads us 10 rest No gently, that vego,
Sc -sce knowiRg II we wish TO 90 or stay,
Being too full Of sleep TO understand
How far the unknown ,ransccnds the what ws
know.
NIGHT before last tired, discouraged
man out On North Hill went home and
flung himself down on lounge, and said
che wished he were dead, dead, dead"
In two hours he was writhing In q pre-
mature and unreasonable attack of
cholera morbus, and howled, and prayed,
and sweat, and had four doctors In the
house, and drank a quart of medicine,
and had mustard plaster smeared all
over him, and wept, and said he wasn't
half tended 10, and he believed they
would like to see him die.-Hd,ckeys.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
TOREueN.

The French government is forming a
third division Of iron.clads, frigate and tv o
corvettes, to proceed to the Levant for the
protection Of French subjects.
There is a distressing famine in the
provinces Of Chill and Shanturg, China.
Thousands are dying daily. There is great
efforts toward relief by the natives and
foreigner, but these are only partially sues
cessful in checking the calamity.
The Turks are already drawing on the
cradle and the grave. All :Mussulrnen
between the ages Of sixty and sixteen in
Bosnia and Herzegovina have been ordered
20 lofn the army in those provinces.
Santa Domingo dates TO the ninth say
.hat President Baez is fast losing his popu
iafi'y' He has recently arrested .our gen,
erals on mere suspicion, and issued a do
cree ordering duties payable in cash. Tb;.
decree has paralyzed trade, merchant.
hitherto having been accustomed to mas
part Of the duties in government bonds. I,
is estimated that the tobscco crop will Weld
one hundred and fifty thousand seroons. the
largest crop ever had. Rumors are In circu.
lation that Samanx bay will be leased to Ger.
many, but they are not credited.
For the present war the Turks have
been largely supplied with the Martini.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
Our Map.

We lay before our readers map Of
that part of Europe which will be the
scene of opening hostilities between
Turkey and Russia. The eyes of mil.
lions of people are likely TO be directed
to this part of the world for some time
TO come, and the result Of the conflict
will be looked for with eager interest.
Tie map, obtained by us from the New
York Tribune, will afford food for study
to those who desire TO keep track of the
two armies, and who wish 10 be posted
upon their future movements. The first
line of Turkish defenses runs near the
right bank of the Danube river, from
Chervetz TO Silistria, while the Russian
army occupied KischeneG, a railroad
town between Odessa and Jassy, as shown
on the mae. The second line of defenses
at which the Turks are intrenched Is In
the Balkan range Of mountains, and
there they are strongly fortified, and Il
will be difficult TO dislodge them,
as the country is rough and un.
broken and forms great rampant,
which will have to be surmounted he
fore Constantinople can be reached. The
map also traces the two boundary lines
of Russia--one before and the other
after the Crimean war. The Danube il
guarded by Turkish feet, which will
cooperate with the land forces.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12

Henry rifle, the same used by the English
army. The Russians use the Karl and Gore
loft rifle. The Martini.I Henry has a capacity
Of twelve shots a minute and a range OF
200 yards. The Karl rife can deliver seven
shots minute and has range of nine hun.
dred yards The Gorlof' rifle delivers eight
shots a minute and its rance is 1000 Yards.
The Matini.IIenry appears to he the superior
arm. Both Russians and Turks, however
have been furnished with Springfield and
Winchester rifles to a large extent since the
mobilization commenced.
In view of Won Moltke's rather hostile
speech in the German parliament, last week
the subject of the relative strengthen France
and Germany becomes of interest. On q
German army is fixed at iSi 600 rmen,
exclusive OF one-year volunteers. These
forces comprise eighteen army corps, re-
cruited in eighteen military districts. The
French army on peace footing contains
i67,6S7 men, divided into nineteen army
corps. This force includes the Algerian
corps. Germany's public debt is about
100000. France has a public debt Of
5000, 100000. When it comes to fighting,
France can put 100000 men in the field.
Germany claims to have 100000 men subs
ject to call.
A dispatch from Matamoras says in
view OF the presence Of Gen. Escobedo,
who is chief supporter of ex>president Lerdo,
on the Texas frontier, and the probability of
an attempt being made to restore Lerdo to
the presidency of Mexico, it is stated that
Gen. Diaz, the acting president, will soon
come TO the Rio Grande and assume the
command of northern Mexico. Orders have
arrived to recruit without delay FIVE or six
thousand additional troops, and horses and
munitions of war are being concentrated on
the frontier as speedily as possible. Should
Escobedo cross from Texas into Mexico he
will meet with stubborn resistance. II is
reported that Gen. Cortina was received in
Mexico with demonstrations OF favor, and
has placed his large stock of horses in his diff
ferent ranches in this vicinity, which were
largely stolen from Texas, at the disposition
Of the government. Cortina's friends assert
that he will soon return with his former
rank of general, and take an active part in
the stirring events shortly expected on the
Rio Grande,
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
What the War Means.

The New York Times, in discussing
the declared purposes of the Russian
government, says; "This must mean TO
drive the Turks, as rulers, from. Europe.
Nothing short of this will protect the
christians, now subject to Turkish
power, from the abuses of which they
complain Russia cannot govern the
christian provinces through the porte
because the porte could not. II hs
wished to, govern those provinces in
any other way than that in which tbev
are now governed. The power of the
sultan over the local authorities is a
shadow for which he may fight, but
concerning which he could never give
any satisfactory guarantee"
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
MlSCELLAEEOUS.

Mr.. Vanderbilt, it is said, has lust
drawn the quarterly dividend of two per
cent. on the New York Central stock to the
amount of about $l,Ooo,OOO. He therefor
owns more than half the entire capital o
$4,000, 600.
The government began the issuing of
postal cards with some misgivin but the
result of what was looked upon by some as
an experiment has been most satisfactory.
Beginning in 1873 with LOG. 600, 900 cards, the
issue has increased year by year at the rate
Of about IL, ,5OO0c0 until now, when 1t Is es.
timated that $50, ,ooO.O 600 will be needed for
the year beginning July next The in.
stances of abuse in the use Of the cards have
been comparatively few, and In case, nj.
kind the inhiction'of the legal pens :.
had a salutsry effect on personsA
disposed to make them the !.
scurrilty and defamation.-W WaS
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
A Victim OF the Custer Massacre.

A touching incident has Just occurred
in connection with the death of Lieuten-
ant William Van w. Reilly, who fell
with Custer in that terrible fight on the
Little Big Horn last year. At the time
of the battle he wore seal ring with his
crest cut upon it, aud this, together with
his clothing, his sword, his pistols, and all
his belongings. was torn from his dead
body and carried away by some one OF
the foe who had helped kill him. His
mother, unable to secure his remains,
and longing for something that had been
with him to the last, tried in every way
TO recover it; she offered immense re-
wards; she had fac-similes OF the die
made and sent to the different agencies
along the..frontier, and she wrote to all
the commanding officers in the Sioux
country, describing il, and a few days
since she received official notice from the
war department that the ring had been
found. 1t was taken from the finger of
one of the fifteen hundred Cheyennes
who came in the other day for their an
nual supply of forgiveness and ammu-
nition.- Cincinnati Commercial.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
NE NSDUT n.

Georgia hasn't cotton-seed oil mill.
Rome, Ga, is thinking of having a
$4,000 Masonic temple.
Salmon placed in the Tangiparoe river
two'years ago are now nearly ten inches long.
Five thousand Poles of the northwest
are to emigrate to the south. There are in.
dications that they will settle in Arkansas.
The artesisn well at Charleston is now
l,325 feet deep. The contract is 5000 feet,
unless a supply of water is sooner found.
An insane woman in Stewart county
Tenn, split her husbands head open with a!
AK, and then chopped the head almost en-.
tirely of.
The largest alligator ever seen in that
portion Of Georgia about Macon was killed
in small lake last week. and measured
eight feet in length.
The last cotton crop of Texas was
nearly 1000 bales, and within one or two
years at furthest it will be l,o0O, o o, mostly
cuitiNateu ny White laDor.
The cost o: the production of cotton
in the south is greatest in MississippI and
Louisiana, while II Ia least in Texas, South
Carolina and Georgia.
The last eight crops of cotton in the
south raised by " freedmen were greater by
100000 bales than that produced the last
eight years OF slavery.
A stock company has been organized
at Apopka, Florida. to cut canal from lake
Apopka to lake Dora so that a steamer
may run from one to the other.
"Died of consumption, starvation and
neglect" Is the brief explicit verdict Of a
coroner's jury on the body OF woman who
died in Happy Hollow, which is in Memphis,
Tennessee.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
The Turks at Home.

There is no Turkish home-lift. By
home life, ] understand the frequent
gathering together under the same roof,
and in the same room, of the members
of family, and all the influences and
attendant circumstances which such fire.
quent gatherings imply. The Turkish
house consists of two parts, one for men
called the selamlik, and the other for
women called the haremlik. These are
usually the two wings of the house, and
are commonly altogether separated from
each other by central hall. Thus the
men have their part of the house and the
woman theirs. Neither is allowed, with
out permission to enter the territory of
the other. In Turkish house, the men
and women do not take their meals to-
gether, do not sit around table, and
can hardly be said TO feed decentlv. IL
IL quite possible for men and women
who do not know the Use of fork to be
very clean about their food, but the use
of fork is a great step toward cleanli-
ness in eating. A Turk holding a con-
siderable position in the state will take
handful OF boiled rice from the common
dish, and after having squeezed all the
water out by working it well in his hand,
will put the lump into the mouth of
guest as mark of peculiar favor. There
is slovenliness about Turks at their
meals which is probably due to the fact
that men and women, do not take their
meals together. The object of the meal
is solely to eat. Small tables, usually
without cloths, the dishes ready for
every ones fingers. and the absence Of
a score of small conveniences which
every European tables furnishes, could
only be tolerated by people who get
their meals anyhow. What is said Of
breakfast applies equally to the other
meals during the day. The civilizinc
effect upon household of requiring ali
the members to meet together, the atteu.
tlon which has to be given to dress, and
to certain proprieties of life, the conver-
satlon which takes place, are all 30
many influences which the Turkish house
Is entirely without. The truth is that
the SEPARATION of the women from the
men absolutely destroys every thing
worth speaking of as home life, and
causes the life IF Turk in his own
house to be utterly wearisome and stupid.
Cor, London Times.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
VOLUME 9.
A Russian Merchants House.

When a Russian merchant becomes
rich, he builds for himself fine house,
or buys and thoroughly repairs the house
of some ruined noble, and spends money
freely on inlaid floors, gigantic mirrors,
malachite tables, grand pianos by the
best makers, and other articles of furni-
ture made of the most costly material.
Occasionally-especially ON the occasion
of a marriage or death in the family
he will give magnificent banquets, and
expend enormous sums on gigantic ster-
lets, choice surgeons, foreign fruits,
costly delicacies. But all this lavish,
ostentatious expenditure does not affect
the ordinary current of his daily life.
As you enter those gaudily-furnished
rooms you can perceive at glance that
they are not for ordinary use. You no.
tice rigid symmetry and an indescriba.
BILE baroness which inevitably suggests
that the original arrangements of the
upholsterer have never been modified or
supplemented. The truth is that by far
the greater part of the house is used only
on state occasions. The host and his
family live down stairs in small, dirty
rsoms, furnished in very different, and
for them more comfortable style. At
ordinary times the fine rooms are closed,
and the fine furniture carefully covered.
If you make risite de 1,oiitesse after an
entertainment at which you have been
present, you will probably have some
difficulty in gaining admission by the
front door, When you have knocked or
rung several times, some one will proba-
bly, come round from the back regions
and ask you what you want. Then fol-
lows another long pause, and at last foot
steps are heard approaching from within.
The bolts are drawn, the door is opened,
and you are led up to spacious drawing
room. At the wall opposite the win
dows there is sure to be sofa, and before
il an oval table. At each end of the
table, and at right angles to the sofa
there will be row OF three arm-chairs
The other chairs will be symmetrically
arranged round the room. In few
minutes the host will appear, in his long
double breasted black coat and well pol
ished long boots. His hair is parted in
the middle, and his beard shows no trace
of scissors or razor. After the customary
greetings have been exchanged, glasses
of tea, with slices of lemon and preserves,
or perhaps a bottle of champagne, are
brought in by way of refreshment. The
female members Of the family you must
not expect to see, unless you are an in
innate friend for the merchants still
retain something of that female seclusion
which was in vogue among the upper
classes before the time of Peter the
Great, The host himself will probably
be an intelligent but totally uneducated
and decidedly taciturn man. About the
weather and the crops he may talk
huently enough, but he will not show
much inclination to 60 beyond these
topics.-From Russia, by ID. Mackenzie
Wallace.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
-he international Cotton Convention.

The chairman OF the united cotton as
sociation, Of Liverpool, having notified
the president of the national cotton ex.
change of the United States, that the
international cotton convention will as.
semble in Liverpool, July llth, and in
viting delegates from the national cotton
exchange, the president, Mr.. John
Phelps, has notified the cotton exchanges
of New York, Galveston, Mobile, Sa.
vannah, Charleston, Memphis, Norfolk,
and st. Louis TO appoint each one dele
gate and one alternate to attend such
convention, it being of the utmost i'm
portance TO the cotton interests Of Amer
lea that the exchanges should be fully
represented on this occasion. Nine del
egates are all that American exchanges
ard entitled to.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
excitement knew no bounds. The home

excitement knew no bounds. The home
secretary was questioned in the house of
commons to know if the news was
authentic; the queen telegraphed TO
Wales for confirmation crowds gath.
cred around the newspaper bulletin the
papers are full of the praise Of the res
cuers, the details Of the rescue and the
strong endurance of the men whs were
saved The Welsh bravery of last week
will be sung in the Eistedfodds Of the
Cymri for ages.-N Y Herald.
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
Southern Ante.Bellum Policies,

Those life insurance companies which
did large business ut tho south before
the war, find that the recent decision of
the United States supreme court on the
forfeiture question is Of immediate prac-
tical importance to them a. well M of
great significance to the business gene
rally. This decision, 1t will be remem-
bered, was to the effect that, where the
payment of premiums was rendered i'm
possible by the breaking out of the re.
bellion, the assured can recover from the
company the amount of reserve at the
time when this first payment became due
and was not paid, together with interest.
Demands upon companies for the pay.
ment OF these reserves and interest have
become alarmingly numerous throughout
the south since that decision. None Of
them are now resisted, and in the aggre-
gate very considerable amount Of money
will thus be disbursed. At the outbreak
o. the war insurance companies having
southern risks congratulated themselves
upon their good fortune in having the
reserves on those risks thus suddenly re-
leased to them, and all Of them appro-
priated the money, without dreaming
that they weuld ever be called upon TO
return it. OF course in large number,
probably in a majority, Of the cases
insurance no demand will ever be made
upon the companies for return Of the
reserves. Ii the policy.holder died sub
sequent to his unavoidable failure TO pay
his premium, his heirs at-law, and not
beneficiary named in the policy, can re.
cover the reserve and interest. South.
ern papers would confer benefit upon
many old policy-holders or heirs Of de.
ceased policy-holders throughout their
section, who may not have heard Of the
>iaion, by informing them Of the above
ia ielphia North Americam.
A.t-l A. s..l---x- r
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12

a YOUNG married couple OF Montrose
Iowa, who had lived together for some
years, corrluded they would he happier
apart. 4 cordingly they had their
effects sold at auction and divided the pro.
ceeds. Before parting to go their several
ways, the man advanced to shake hands
with his wife, but she waived him off
saying, "Go along I've had enough of
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
Sad Ending OF a March Child.

Rudolph Fenerestein, a painter by
trade, registered his name at hotel in
Lawrence, Kan, one night, and was
found dead in his bed the next morning.
There was letter on the table in which
everything was explained. The candle
gives no time for details. Valise stolen
on the way from Dalton to Kansas City,
at l.. and X. Junction, while eating sup
bad luck on March IL, when was
born. Another March l, 1855, when my
father died Another March 20, valise
stolen, and hand in my checks this night,
March "a TO 25, 1877, If morphine
bought at Kansas City is any account.
] am sorry cannot tell my whole his
tory il would be worth $20.0OQt 10
somebody; but the time is overHa
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12
THE RESCUE,

At last passage was made, and cne
by one, weak, but still alive, the fire
men were borne on brawny arms to thv
light of day. This was yesterday after
noon. Hundreds of thousands all owe
be land wept with Joy. In London tfc
The Osceola times., 1877-05-12

.ed on the Judgments Of
>,their rasspolts TO
- there.