The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-04-16

Albang 2egistet.
ALBANY. OREGON, APRIL 1e, 1880.
The hobby OF the Democracy Is States
Rights. Peoples Rights Is what the Re-
publican party go in for, and arc determin.
ed.to maintain.
There was no hun.bug abou. Gladstone 3
Midlothian ''boom.'' Disraeli must now
gather up his imperial baubles and retire
from the scene.
The Republican State Convention meet
on Wednesday, April 81, at IL o'clock A.
M.,and will consist of a hundred and sixty
fiye delegates. full attendance is prom
ised.
The AStorian has been enlarged and
now puts in an appearance as an eight
l.age.six column paper. We congratulate
friend Ireland on tl.is evidence of his
prosperity.
Dispatches from Havana continue TO an
nounce, at stated intervals, that the insur-
gents are being beaten and captured.
Ctlriously enough the whole of them are
never gathered i'm, and probably never
will be.
Jay Could is now accommodating wealth
more rapidly than any man in New York
atpi probably in America, except VIM. Fl.
Vanderbilt. His income is now estimated
at $2,OOO per day. Twenty years ago he
was jobbIng sole leather. and had tam
cry In Pennsylvania woods. the place called
sGoulisborough.
The Gar has sent fresh division of
troops to Knldja, and his watchwor1 is
that ''The Chinese must 60" Per con-
ira, $4,000 martial pigtails arc floating
on the breeze very close to the scene of
dispute, and actual war may possibly re-
suit.
The Chicago Times has just closed the
largest paper contract ever made in the
United States. 1t was for 1000 tons The
order was given to a mill in Canada. The
Times loses $1OOOO year by the increase
in the price of paper.
Tie Portland Mercury supports John
Burnett, bat repudiates Prim and Kelley,
the other two Democratic nominees for the
supreme beiich. Personally there is 10
better man In the Democratic party than
John Burnett, and he will run away ahead
Sf his ticket.
III the voice of the rank and file of the
Republican party is to be heard. Hon. NJ.
C. George will be the nominee of the Re-
publican State Convention for Congress.
He Is la favor of and will work tor the in
terests of the whole State, and will not
use his official position to work in the in
teIcst Of monopolies to the detriment of
the people. lie will poll more votes than
any man in the State of Oregon. NOmi-
nate Hon NJ. c. George and he will be our
next member OF Congress.
The timber trade OF Canada is every
year attaining greater importance. It Is
estimated that during the present season a
thousand million feet will be cut. which,
at the present prices, will be worth $I3.-
00o, GOO, but will not be sufficient to supply
the demand. Fortunately the forests of
the dominion are so vast in extent as al
most to defy the threads that are being
made. Localities convenient to the coast
will, however, soon be denuded.
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The following is said to be the compar-
ative ~ailk yield Of tile various breeds of
COWS A native COW produces annually
1874 pounds of milk Jersey, $500 Aver
shire, 1900 and an American Holstein.
4527. Taking the weight. $50 pounds, OF
native cows, they produce five times their
weight in milk; AyersEires, six and one
half; Jerseys, four and a half; and Hol-
stems, five times.
Judge Macarthur, being twittcd I'm the
late Democratic State ConventIo on, of his
action in 1870, when he presented ard
endorsed the rcpudiation plank of the plat
form on that occasion. had the manliness to
say that ne was ashamed of his course OH
that occasion, and he hoped never again
TO be guilty Of such shameful act. Sew
eral Of the Democratic leaders OF Oregon
might profit by McArthur's example. and
before it is too late make public aekmowI-
eGlgulent Of their repentance and conver.
sion.
AutenreitIl, the jacksonville wiBdbeater,
who boasted bis mixture OF Dutch and
Irish blood, and also Of being mixed in his
financial ideas, showed by his speech at the
Court House Thursday evening of last
week. that his tendency Is to get mixed on
everything. While addressing his audience
against the wiekedness OF scratching the In.
falllble Democratic ticket, lie said Dem
ocra& II fasked to scratch his ticket, coulo
get out Of It by saying that he was fqnOraasi
and afl aid he might make mistake and