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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

paper. and if it can be kept
steady IN its present course, as the rep
resentative of the advanced thought of
the city and country, it will come ont
all right. But who can tell ? Who
knows whose money is behind it, and
everybody knows what power money
has. And speaking of newspapers t is
a mistake to suppose that a newspaper
in New York is a gold mine. The
Herald, the Post, the Commercial
11dce,Tise,', and the lSetas are making
money. The World has always sunk
money, the Times makes something,
but more by its real estate than the pa
per; the Tribune is holding about even,
and with the rest it is struggle with
mortgages 1t cost million of dollars
to establish the Times, and the amount
sunk to establish new papers here is
fearful.
FASHIONS.
Odd, eonforsable-looking long
sacques, shaped loosely to the body and
covering almost the entire dress, are
worn by girls in thir teens as school
wrap; the material dark gray undressed
cloth. The newest bonnets have high
peaked crowns with hardly any brim, a
full p,eatine of velvet and lace taking
! its place. The trimming now, as ever,
/ makes the bonnet. Broad scarfs of silk
or velvet must be laid in many folds
about the crown, full plumes and bows
soften the outline, or the high bonnets
are the poorest looking looking things
imaginable. The new bonnets for chill
dren are dark brown or pruEe-colored
velvet, in the high shape, without any
brim except pleating of silk raveled
or the edge, and lace frill beneath,
which gives the breadth OF an ordinary
brim. III e most elegant hats are deep
maroon velvet, trimmed with roses
shading from pink to crimson, and loops
of dark crimson ribbon. The light
scarlet, often called cardinal, looks vul
gar in the extreme.
THE 'cosIPTEoLLERsHIP.
John Kelly, BOSS Kelly, has beer
appointed Comptroller in place Of An
} drew Ii. Green, and was promptly con
, firmed by the Democratic Aldermen
Kelly is the head OF that association o
, thieves, Ta,nmany, and is also Of th'
t gin-milt faction. lie is more danger
Gus man than Tweed, because, Will,
just as unscrupuIous, he is a more abl
! man, and has the gin-mills in bette
training. This action of the Mayor is
complete surrender of the city to it
' worst clements. The strikers are il
e ecs.acy, and good men mourn.
THE BETS.
John Morrissey has declared all bet
I on the Presidency off, and is returnin!
the money he holds--a million and
half-to the rightful owners. Wha
!, the others will do no one know:
+ There Is fear on the part of better
f that instead of declaring the bets ''off,
4 they will take themselves off. The
e are all shaky. PIETRo.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

Cor OFF AT THE WRONG STATION.
The death of one OF the oldest resi-
dents of Brookfeld recalls an incident
in her career which happened some IF
teen years ago.
She was going to Sanford to visit
a daughter, and took her seat in the
cars for tie first and only time in her
life. During the ride ali accident oc-
CURED whereby the car in which she
was seated was thrown down an en-
bankment aud demolished. Crawling
out from beneath the debris she spied a
man who was held down III sitting
posture by his legs being fastened.
els this Santord," she anxiously en-
quircd.
The man was from Boston. lie was
in considerable pain, but he did not
lose sight of the fact that lie was from
Boston SO he said:
"No, this is a ca astrophe
"Oh" % calculated the old lady, "tl.en
l hadn't oughter got off here 20
This was SO evident as to make re.
| ply unnecessary.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

4 carpenter who was always prog-
nosticatirg evil. to himself, was. ole day
upon tie roof of a fiye-story building
npon which the rain had fallen. The
roof being slippery, lie lost lis footing.
aud as lie was descending towards tile
caves, he exclaimed, ''jurt as told
you!'' Catching however, on an iron
spout, lie kicked OF his shoes, and re.
gained place Of safety. when he thus
delivered himself: II knuwed il ;
there's pair Of shoes gono.'
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

The latest London industry is tic COL
lection OF oleaginous deposits ia the mud
of the Thames. 1t is quite profitable,
the mud-gatherers making three shil.
lings and sixpcnce a day out o. il.
Small globes made of cork and lined
with hair are planted IN the mud atlnw
tide aud the fatty substances IN The wa
ter adhere to them. This miscellaneous
grease is manufactured into fresh buttes
for the London market.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05
SOME EXPERIMENTS WITH FIRE.
BY NJ. QUAD.

I knew him for months aud months,
aud yet [ did not know his name. /
called him "Spon," and he answered to
it as readily as he would have answered
to any other. lie was small of stature,
bent with age, and his scanty locks were
as white as snow.
Most men took him to be a beggar,
or some old man waiting to die. When
| came to know him l found that he
had little old shop on quiet street,
and that he had not a relation on earth.
I cannot name tile shop. It was not
tailor-shop, or shoe-shop. or a junk
shop, and yet it was all three, aud he
kept herbs and medicines besides. No
one liked him, and yet al respected
him. lie was reserved, and yet he was
free to answer questions. lie gave his
history to all honest inquirers, and yet
they really learned nothing about him.
such was my strange old man. One
night fire broke out IN a building de-
signed for a drug store. The store was
furnished with walnut shelving ard
counters, and pine ceiling. Everything
had been oiled and some of it vanished, !,
and the store would have been occupied
in another week The fire was under
good headway when discovered, and
the whole interior was burned out
"What caused it!' | asked fireman
after the flames had been extinguisEed.
"Some one set fire to it" he replied.
sIf you say that, you lie 20 cried a
strange voice, and we looked up and
found my strange old man. That was
my introduction. ] laughed at him
but he maintained such serious look
that my curiosity was aroused and
inquired
"Wby do you say that %
'sCome with me-" he answered, anc
he would not let go my arm until W,
stood at the door of his little old shop
. We went in and sat down, and present.,
he commenced
s.It was neither accident nor incendia
rism. There was no stove there to dro
) spark, and doors and windows wer
: locked against incendiaries. 1t wa
5 simply q case of spontaneous con1but
| tion. The light, dry woods were soah
: ed with oil, the floor covered with rag
: and shavings, and not even pane {
n glass out to ventilate the room"
d / was no believer in spontaneou
/ combustion, and / made light of HI
q remarks.
S "Come here tomorrow and / wi
: convince you,' he answered, and ate
i some further discussson I went ava,
He had spoken of spontaneous combu
Y ton; / named him "Spon.n He W;
t old; | called hian cold Spon."
IS Old Spon was character for a sketcl
e and hoping to find him full of anecdo
It and adventure, and smiling at the a
> surdity of his theory, ] called at b
IS shop the next day as requested. T
j, was ready for me, and be took up Il
le subject at once.
oe 81 am going to reproduce that dr..
1t store" he said, pointing around t
Z room. Here is box, shavingss {
], and rags. Let me prove to you that
e does not need fire to make fire. "
al He had some fine walnut and pi
se sIaYings, and some bits of dry boar
IS lie poured. boiled linseed oil and q
q tie varnish on these, some more Oh
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

During thunderstorm gentleman
takes hack down the Champs Elysees
towards the Fanbourg st. German.
lie noticed that at every flash of hight
ming the driver piously makes The sign
oftLe cross, and says: 81 observe that
you cross yourself, you do WE'LL" ''Oh,
yes, it is always we'll where there are SO
many trees, but once we get into the
street | don't care CURSE
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

"You see," said uncle Job, ssmy
wife's curious woman. scrlmped,
AMI saved, and almost starved all OF as
to get the parlor furnished nice, and
now shc won't let one OF us so into it.
and hain't even had the blinds Of it
open for month. She is a cur'ols
woman
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

Do you ever read the newspapers !?
No. Have you any opinion about any
thing No. Do you know your left
hand from your right ? No. DO you
consider yourself species of born
IDIOT? Yes. Chen you are fit for a
juryman. Swear him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05


An agent for the sale Of me hopse.
hold article attempted to inount tha
steps Of house recently, but dog
came around the corner and t1s half y
yard of cloth from the back Of lis conk
The man was sliding ont when tha avn.
er Of the house came aud asked: ssDid
doze dog bide you? ssIIe didnst b;te
me. but he ruined my coat, was Tho
reply. ssIy goot trent, excuse doza
dog It lie didn't bi.le you. IIc lisb :
young dog now, but py und py le shaIl
take holt Of some agents Una eat der
pones ride cnd ot them. lie biaes :
coat now but lie shall soon do bottsr -
A locomotive engineer who lad insk
been discharged for some cause 9nvs
vent to bis spite, ,sseminently chasacsesis.
TIC Of American humor. He saia Ii
was about time lie lett the cnrar6s,v
anyhow, for tile sake 81 his ill., a.
"ihere was nothing left Of tho Sla trrs,
but two strcaks q rust and tbe righs s'
way
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05
OUss NEw york LETTER.

V4IE EsooKLyNs HoRRoR-roLrTrcAL
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COMP
T4soLLERsuIP-BETs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05
Deaths of a Year.

In England, in 1874. 1913 persons
were killed by horse conveyances tram
cars killed so, omnibuses only 55 per-
sons. BY cabs 81 persons were killed,
and by carriages 80, and this limitation
OF the numbers is noted as implying
great skill on the part of the drivers in
streets often crowded. There were 294
deaths from injuries in coal mines, and
11S from injuries connected with cop
per, tin, iron and other mines. Deaths
by poisoning increased to 461, about
one third of them being ascertained sui
eides. There were 25 boys and men,
nearly all following outdoor oceupa-
tloas were killed by lightning. SUM-
stroke was fatal to 80 persons, and 124
deaths were ascribed to gelatio and cx-
posure to cold. A girl only fourteen
years old, the daughter of laborer,
died III childbirth. There was death
from the bite of fox, from the bite of
rat, from the scratch of a cat, from the
bite of a leech, from the sting of hor-
net, and two from the stlngs OF wasps.
HEARTRENDERING CRUELTy-The
evidence in the case of John and Mag
sic NcCarty, charged with the murder
of their foster cLild, George Woodard,
at Bay City, Michigan, shows that once
the woman put a rel-hot iron in the
child's mouth and held his lips lightly
against it. Again she he'd him head
foremost down a well. She also fire.
qnently placed his fingers in the hinge
crack of the door and shut the door
against them, and at times put them
through the clothes wringer. She wa,
also in the habit of striking him OH thc
head with huge piece of wood. 1ht
woman seems to have little anxiety
about the situation, and sings i'll her eel
for long time.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-01-05

NEW AORh, DEC. 8, 1910.
SGIE TRAGEDY AZ THE BRooLYN THE
NTRE
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

It Is common to refer to the panic
of 1873 as thing of the past; but the
record shows that 1t has never ceased,
that it has continued with an increas-
ing number of failures every year,
and that we are in the midst of it yet.
Bank suspensions, business failures,
the closing of workshops and factories,
and labor strikes against starvation
wages have been going on without
cessation under the menace of forced
resumption in 1879. Yet all this time
we have had the benefit of 500, 0O0, 900
of paper currency resting upon the
immutable faith of our people in the
credit of their government, and pass
ing from hand to hand at its face value,
without the slightest symptom of hesi-
tation or doubt upon the part of any
one about receiving it either to pay
out again or hoard. Now suppose
that these $1,000, 000, 900 of currency
had been bank notes, not legal tender
for anything, not money, but Sfpaper
promises" based on two or three hum
dred millions Of specie supposed to be
in the bank Vaults-what would have
been the result of these constant runs
on the banks which we have witness
edP The runs would not have been
confined to depositers, but the first
symtom of alarm would have sent the
whole population en- masse to the
bank doors demanding money, legal
tender money, for their notes. Ali
the banks in the land would have been
forced TO suspend with all the legal
money OF the country locked up in
their vaults, All business would have
collapsed, mortgages would been fore
closed, and nearly all the property of
the people would have changed
hands at ruinous sacrifice. That Is
the way = real panic operates, and
what We are suffering from now Is not
panic, not want of confidence in
the value and availability OF our cur
rency, but is the legitimate, newt
able effect of contraction, OF policy
which daily appreciates the value of
our money and produces correlative
RArtnkage OF all other values, thereby
preventing Investments In trade Or
menutaetnres and paralyzing almost
every branch Of business except that
OF the money changers and the bear
cliques OF speculators.-Ex,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03
MInnesOta's Vote For RepuiI.
aAt1On.

The st. Paul Press Pioneer of
the 18th inst. says: The total
vote of Minnesota in the last
annual election was 124,O53.
The whole vote cast at the
bond election in June was
76,50O. OF this aggregate, 3d.
176 votes were cast against the
bond settlement, and 1924 for it,
while 1883 votes did not vote
at all. We find then that consid.
erably less than half Of the voters
OF Minnesota voted against the
bond settlement, and the matter
stands on the record about as
follows: 59,176 voters, mainly
from ignorance and misconcep-
ton, were::oppesed to paying so
cents on a dollar of the outstand-
ing bonds; 1924 votes heartily
favored the proposed adjustment
while Al, 533 votes were so indif-
ferent to the matter that they
would not take the trouble to vote
on the question. It is not true,
then, that a majority of the peo-
pie of Minnesota have votedagainst
the payment of the bonds,
and it is fair to infer that the A.
533 voters who did not take in
terest enough in the matter to
vote were at least not opposed to
the settlement. They were at least
simply neutral and Indifferent.
1t is also fair to infer that every
man who was actively hostile to
the settlement took the trouble to
vote against it. So it is safe to
assume that the 59,176 persons
who vote against 1t constitute the
strength of the populations in
Minnesota, and a good deal more
when they come to understand the
question. At any rate, if one
campaign would not bring a ma
jority of the people of Minnesota
to the side of honesty, two cam
paigns would be pretty certain TO
result In an overwhelming victory
for State honor and State credit.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03
Hearing FruIt.

The ru1nious financial policy
which our government has pursued
ever since the close of the war, is
bearing it's legitimate fruit in the
present war of the laboring men.
All of our legislation has been in
the interest of capital and at the ex-
pense of labor. The interests of la
Dor and capital are naturally identi-
cal, and whatever legitimately aids
the one will aid the other, but our
financial legislation has been of
such character as to force the cur
rent of business out of its natural
channel and to array capital and Ia
Dor against each other.
Steadily and persistently has the
Times raised its voice, for years
past, in protests against the policy,
which we have, time after time, de-
clared must lead in the end to Just
such conflict as that which the
railroad strike has now precipitated
upon the country; and we firmly
believe that unless there is reform,
radical and immediate, it will be
found that the present demonstra-
ton, vast and formidable as it ap-
pears to be, is but the precursor of
the greater storm soon to come.
The persistent enforcement of any
policy, the effect If not the purpose
of which is to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, must sooner
or later result in q great social up
heaval, If not revolution.
While capital has no soul it ought
not to be without sense, and ought
to know that there is point be-
yond which the screw of oppression
cannot be turned; though it has the
legislation of the country in it's
control, and shapes the laws in it's
own interest, it ought to be wise
enough to know that there is a
point beyond which its insatiate
greed cannot safely go. The mon
ey lender has had the management
of our finances exclusively in his
own hands, and while he has been
selfish enough to build all the ener-
gies of the country into colossal
fortune for himself, he has not had
shrewdRess enough to know that
he4was building upon foundation
which his own grasping policy rem
dered every day more insecure.
While the value of his bonds and
mortgages has been twice or thrice
multiplied, st the expense of labor,
he is still insatiste in his demands
for more, and is clamoring for q
murderous contraction of the cur
rency that the value of his money
may be still further enhanced, while
tens of thousands of workmen are
appealing for bread in the names of
starving wives and little Ones.-
LeaVenWorth Times. af
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03
T,ae Decisive Cause of the
Trouble.

New York Sun.
There is now among the people OF
this country an amount of distress
aud suffering, for want of employ
ment and for want of money, such
as was never known in the United
States before. Great strikes and
riots, with the military of several
States under arms, affords the most
startling and most conclusive evil
dence of this universal distress.
1t is exceedingly important for all
people, and especially for those
workiDgmen who suffer and are to
suffer The most deeply from this
tfagicai situstfon, 20 understand the
causes which bring such misery
upon them.
These causes are several, and the
desperate remedy which the rail-
road engineers and rfiremen have
fallen upon is not only utterly in
effectual against them, but can only
result in bringing greater privatlons
and deeper suffering upon those who
resort to it. OF the great trunk rail-
road companies, one is already in
bankruptcy and others are upon the
verge of it, while the strongest OF
them continue to pay dividends from
their earnings. The railroads are
thus at starvation point, and there
is no alternative for the managers
but to reduce to the starvation point
the wages of their employees
The Sun goes on to argue that
this whole trouble is directly
tracesble to the fact that Hayes was
" counted In, and thus adds to the
weakness of it's position. The idea
Of asserting that the great trunk
railroads are at the point of starva-
tion, is all nonsense. Railroad bu-
siness is good. How is it that they
can afford TO pay officers $4,000
$4,000, $4,000 and 100000 sala-
rles If they are SO near bankruptcy
and starvation. 1t is the paying OF
such large salaries, and trying to
make the roads pay dividends on
thousands of shares of T" watered'
stock, Issued dishonesty, and which
never cost the railroad kings a cent,
that hurts them, while in many Ca
ses it is asserted that little rings
within rings are grabbing the earn
iDgs so that outside interests never
see any dividends. The Sun pro-
fesses to be very honest and truth
telling, but the above paragraph
shows that it is not only weak from
blind hatred of the Republican
president, but that it is willing TO
Pander to the interests of the rail
road sWindlers. .a.s4
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and wisdom were synonymous
in that country who had been there,
well, ever since the flood. lie had
3 wonderful reputation. I put the
thing off as long as ] could, but the
inevitable came at last. One of the
prominent men in my neighborhood
got sick with pneumonia, and when
the lung had solidified, and he had
passed near unto death / honestly
informed the family of his danger
GUS condition. OF course they want
ed Smith. / call him Smith because
that was not his name. Smith came,
and I met him with fear and tremb-
ling. He wore No. 3 hat aud a
No. Is boot. IgaYe him the histo-
ry,of my case and the treatment,
and awaited the coming storm. /
expected to be overwhelmed with a
food OF technicaiities and with his
wonderful knowledge of pathology
cal anatomy. He looked at me
through his spectacles with the grav-
ity of ano wi and said: "Doctor did
you ever try q black cat-skin pouf-
tice IN these cases ?" I admitted
that, In my ignorance, never had.
I thought it q good time for me to
get, out Of the case. So / Informed
the family that, as Dr.. Smith had
been their family physician before
they. knew nae, he had better take
the case. They were only too glad
to make the change. That was an
awful and calamitous night on cats,
especially black cats. The man died,
and Smith told them that If he had
seen the case two hours earlier, and
had succeeded in getting a" leetle +"
blacker cat he would have saved
him. The family still think so. Sa-
cred be the memory of Smith he
has been gathered to his fathers.
My next consultation was with q
man whom, for convenience, I will
call Jones. I rode fifteen miles on
8 dark night to meet him. When i
went into the cabin was met by q
terrible smell which gave me spas
modic asthma. I thought they
were burning old boot heels. Jones
arose from one corner of the room,
and introduced himself. j saw at
once that he was q man of high
standing in the professionals feet
three in his stocking feet. He had
but one eye, and his nose looked
like red lantern in a torch-Hght
procession. When ne lowered
above me and beamcd on me with
his good eye, and that nose, I al
most wilted. 1 asked whence came
that awful smell. He said that he
was burning chicken feathers un-
der the bed to bring away retained
placcn0ti He added that he had
always heard that Dominicker feath-
ers were the best. The pot was re-
moved on account of my asthma.
When 1 came to examine the case
found the poor woman covered all
over with ears of hot corn. The
doctor said that he had always
heard that boiled corn was good in
these cases. 1 told him I thought
it was good-for horses. The wo-
man died, but / am sorry to say
that Jones still lives.
Gentlemen, thank you for your
kind attention.