The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-04-02
late Dates.


with her f1ancee.
Mrs. Cavanaugh was thrown over the
grade on the West Union road near Red
wood City, and instantly killed, her horses
backing off the grade.
Judge Hunts probable retirement and
the appointment of Senator Edmunds to
the supreme bench is being discussed.
Further discovery of Masonic embletns
under the Egyptian ebelfsk is exciting
| the enthusiasm of the craft.
Mrs. j. Smiths barn at Corvallis
was lately burned, but the house was
saved.
| Twenty-three hundred dollars has been
subscribed toward the Oakland academy.
At annual election of the Corvallis fire
department, Mic Baeson was elected chief
and w. s. McFadden assistant.
The citizens of Josephine, Jackson and
Lake are talcking of having a Southern
Oregon agricultural fair.
The Gazette says J. s. Folger, who lives
near Philomath, raised and fattened a
Poland china hog, this past season that
weighed 76O pounds.
Mr.. H. McTimmond's family have it and
Mr.. Hooker has lost two more children,
the Rirerstde says.
w. Quimby, of Portland, bought some
horses in Douglas county. and the Stn'
says two of them were 10 hands high. No
car could hold them with box over it.
Richard Girifon. of Monroe, was arrest
ed as insane, and the fact well sworn to,
but as it was shown that he was only
whisky crazy he was allowed to stay at
large on good behavior.
Dom Pedro and the Pope are getting on
bad terms, merely about the appointment
Of a Bishop. There has been trouble be-
tween them before. Dom persists in hav-
ing opinions of his own.
General Andrew Hick kenslooper is one OF
the great men of Hamilton County, Ohio.
No ordinary individual could drag name
like that to renown.
Writs Tor new elections have been issued
in England.
Kentucky sends Grant delegates to the
republican state convention.
Eugei i has started on her tour to visit
the spot where the Prince Imperial was
killed.
More trouble in Afghanistan, and troops
ordered on forced marches to head of i'll
surrection.
A boarding house OH the ranch of j. s.
Cone, near Red Bluffs, was burned and
Christopher Smith with it.
The California senate has passed a bill
that holders of majority of shares can re-
move officers If mining corporations.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. wins
the suits and the injunction is dissolved.
They succeeded in all the suits decided.
The Rhode Island house of representa-
tiyes by vote of 4s to II, agree to leave the
woman's suffrage amendment to ths elec-
tors.
Temperance people blew up a saloon in
| Dublin county, Ohio if there is such a
| county there, whereas they should only
| ave blOwnup the saloon keeper.
| The jails are so full in San francisco
/ that they cannot undertake to carry out
tile anti Chinese laws and make arrests 70,
violations of the cubic air ordinance.
At banquet given in Galveston to
Grant, he made speech and wished the
entire south might go OF developing their
resources, and in their prosperity, forget
there is boundary between north and
south.
The proprietor of Pennington offers
half the town sight to whoever will build a
railroad there.
Russia has 50 many political prisoners
that they will have to build new prisons in
! Sibel ia to hold them.
On Wednesday of last week, the Salem
Statesman says, the citizens OF Dallas raised
| by subscription the sum of So, 300 as SUBJ
sidy for the narrow gauge road to that
place, and ON yesterday the engineer on
| the SiIverton and Sublimity section of the
| east side narrow gauge was dispatched
with his party to Dallas to survey the road
into Dallas.
! G. A. Wells, near Buena Vista, had
three teams to run away at the same time
in the same field one day last week-one
team hitched to a plow, another to har-
row, and another to drill. 1t create d
| qnite commotion for awhile. Some OF
the boys say it looked like whole drove
ofhorses trying to dodge shower of agri-
cultural implements. Result of runaway,
mashed up drill and broken harrow.
The winter in Sprague river valley has
been very hard. The ground is still cover.
ed with two feet of snow, the hay is AL
gone and the cattle and horses are dying
off fast. The Snake Indians on the Klan
ath reservation had twenty, three head Of
two year old heifers given them last fafl
and now all are dead but five. There are
1000 head OF sheep in the upper Sprague
river valley, and their owners say If tht
snow doesn't disappear iu a very few cay.
they will not have enough mutton left fol
seed.
The ex-Empress Eugerie will soon star
On very mournful trip. She viii frs
muse on the lesson of St. Helena, visiting
that historic isle, and then seek the spo
where her son was slain in Zu'uland
Pilgrimages ofthIs melancholy ci,aracte
are ill-adapted to restoring vigor to {
nervous system long shattered by disaster