The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-23

,ank.
Garibaldi is said to- be very il, and
,eyond hope of recovery.
Baltimore is feeding her poor on 9
zig scale. In three weeks about so 600 |
oeople have been fed at the police sta
ions.
There were last year $50 ,.deserters
from the English army, and for some
years past the desertions have averaged
twenty q day. s
A Worchester physician recently cut
a mans tongue completely off, the MEM
Der being diseased with cancer. The |
patient is doing finely.
sTne cold has been sintese (for that re-
gion) in. Florida. During Christmas
week the mercury several times reached
as low as 2S degrees.
Tile large importations ofsAmerican
beef have at length sent down the price
of English beef as much as Sd on tho
pound in some places.
Reports from the Negro Republic of
Liberia show that the condition OF tie
Republic constantly improves, and ex-
ports coffee, sugar and other products
to America.
The tunnelling of St. Gothard, in
Switzerland is nearly halt completed,
and at the present rate the whole will
be finished by the close OF 1880.
Turkey intends being represented at
the Paris Exposition of 1878, notwith-
standing the probable war in which she
will be involved at the time.
4 London correspondent writes !:
aThe idea seems very prevalent that
Lord Eeacontield intends proposing to.
The Queen the creation OF theshead Of
the Rothschilds family in London as
peer of the realm.
A New York stevedore had one of
his fingers mashed in loading barrel Of
| lard, and he Brought suit against his
employer for damages. The defense
was contrbutive negligence, bat the
plaintiff got $1,000.
A monster resident in Iowa, murder
ed his wife and then eloped with her
sister who had poisoned his child. The
neighbors followed them up, shot the
woman, hung the man, aud then burn
ed the two bodies. gAsh
According to the London Army and
Navy Gazette, recruiting has been so
brisk, owing to general depression III
all trades, that ITO fewer than 80 ,000
young men enlisted last year.
The fact that there has been great
ly increased sale of postal cards within
the last half year is taken as evidence
that tsthe people are too poo: to write
tnll- priced letters =
! Ifevery one who could would spend
only half an honr and half adollar eaef
week in relieving the poor, there woulC
be fewer empty ston1achs and moro Of
us deserving of Gods blessings.
The peoples indulgence in whisky
beer, and tobacco brought the govern
metlt, i'll revenue, 500. 900, 600 las
the loss entailed by this indulgence.
, The city of Washington las expend
cd s4,500,000 in wooden pavemcnt'
, which now have to be removed and ar
nearly impassable-fifty miles of sogg
,, blocks, hardly lit for firewood.
, a citizen of IIarwinton, Conn, !g
/ in good condition for eating an appl
which he kept for twenty-five years h
a process which he discovered by acc
/ dent.
J Men, who work all dav on the Olyn
t pia Fair Grounds, will be admitted {
the ball III the evening free of clarg
l Z OF course they'll feel like dancin
s This is like telling boys that one WI
: eats the most lnush can have the mo
dessert.
The passengers on a Kentucky RAJ
. road train became SO interested in &
: clipping couple that, when the father
r the girl came aboard at a station to tai
! her home, they forcibly elected him.
! III Los Angeles, Cal, a bcnevole
: family took in tramp and nursed Iii
. during long sickness. Now lie sn
3 for pay for a little work that lie d
= about the house while he was rceovs
!. ing.
ID An aged man in Liberty, Ind, WOO
le a girl of sixteen in vain as long as
i. stuck to sentiment; but when he g
II down to business and offered to gi
IS her n deed of a farm, size consent
of without hesitating.
rs Sitting Bull and his forces are yet
"a the war path, and, with blood III tin
T. eyes and yells in their mouths, are pl
3. pairing for the utter humiliation of t
- white race next summer. so! {
- conquering hero comes.'
Is, II This Louisiana business is pcrverti
oii the morals and humanity of the natl,
oil 4 city cat last week returned a cot
at. of seven kittens, and then the lady
ar the house assumed ministerial and cl
It ical powers, and threw six of them {
ST into the sewer.
d- The burlington, Iowa, .HusrL:e
ID. says: Who will now deny the Den
,se cratic love for the ssnigger ?'' Crol
,a- was only considered worth $40,
rv while $4,000 was offered for a So,
be Corolna "darkey.''
OF When woman can feel a mo
lln' crawling along her spinal column, q
er- yet ttop to think whether she has
&c striped stockings, before keeling ovel
a fit, she is at least qualified to en-
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