The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-07-09

Nelson Stewart, young man who
was employed by Mr.. James Burnett,
of Round prairie, Oh barn which he
was building, tell backwards off the
scaffold, striking OH his hands, which
he had thrown out to break the fall,
breaking the bones OF one wrist and
disIocating the other.
The Indians at Fort Simcoe reserva-
ton are holding camp meeting. Father
Wilbur presiding.
/ The trial of the Bloomfield murder
ers at Walla Walla has been postpond
until December.
The Idaho AUaLdnche says the In
diaus of Duck valley have become in
dustrIons and are raising crops.
They don't hear of a case of smallpox
within a thousand miles of Walla
Walla. DiRhtheria is also heard of no
more.
The Indians INDUCED in a frst-class
/ row among themselves last Sunday in
El!ensburg. Csuse-too much whisky
A band of nearly three thousand
head OF cattle were driven through
Walla WalIa the other morning bound
for Cheyenne.
Six six-horse Mormon freight teams
passed through Idaho City recently
with quartz machinery for Banner, in
Boise county.
1t is estimated that million and
half of brick will be burned1 at Boise
City this season, and the same number
in feet of lumber consumed.
Prospec.ors who went to the Black
Hills, near Olympia, found the color in
many places and think that Waddell's
GEEK diggings will pay So so and So
per day.
The barrel factory at Seattle has
doubled its force, running two shifts in
stead of one, turning out 1000 barrels
,fayly. About one hundred men and
boys are employed, all white, who re-
ceive fair wages ami readj pay. No
Chance for Cinnamon there.
The Idaho World says fnrty-tw"
tons of Paymaste7 oregcrushed in Plow-
mars mill lately, wen. between $50
and $50 per ton. The mill is no"
making run on rock from ledge run
ming parallel with and rear the Pay :
master, and owned by the Paymas'er
company.
The East Cregonian says: Grass
hoppers and bugs are upon portion of
the country A swarm or herrl at
tackled D. Thecdore's farm, about to,.r
miles out from Umatilla, on the river
the gang was about 200 yards wide
and no knowing its lemgth Th"'
cleared sage brush OH their route clea,
and by tie time OF this writing it is n
expected he has any garden or gra'
lefi, except such grain as he was all
to cut since the irrup'ion. We al,
learn that they are attacking all tie
idilllS iioiIA IhlS poI'i1 "e' tHe y iI6''i q
river. y brown hug las also appear.
OH the scene aud is harvesting the p",
to vines
Mr.. Sam Derrick OF Weston, cr
mitted suicide by taking two ounces
andanum. Mr.. Derrick hal been c'.r
planning for a long time. his no
being very poor, and his sutf;ri in.
tense. He had become disc, ragged
to his recor cry, and in fit dc
dency terminated hi, earthly m,>e.y.
On the 28tt, at Elkhart, India ::
George liatt, shot his affianced, Nj
Mamie Darcie. and then killed himse
Elliott was ineare!y 'alous and Civ,
to drink. lie had seen another youn
man walking with Mamie during II,
afternoon. which was the cause of Il
killing. 'iiss Iarcie was pronom
ced hopeless.
City Treasurer Williams, of Roch,s
ter, n. Y, suicided on tie 2Sth. :
comm ttee of the ummon Council liza
declared his accounts correct.
George Fearne, the English swim,
mer, on the 28th SWAN from the foot o
sd street, through He'll Gate and
i,'Iusring, a distance of Is miles, in 3
hours, II minutes a'd As seconds
f'earne is % years old and weighs IT'S
pounds.
Three colord men were killed 10y
lightning, while working on a farm
eight miles from Louisville, Ky, Oh
the 2Sth.
The party which in 1864 pr"non ced
the war failure and rejoiced when the
national arms met with defeat, now
seeks TO gam favor through the~omma-
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