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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11
Llss or Letters.

Uncalled tor and remaining ii, the Post
offee IN this city for the week ending
June 10th, 1880:
Conner L. o. Mason Svlvestar
Leininger w. II. Pearce Daniel 1.
Moore Mrs. II. j. Tom w. ,. =
+. II. RAYMOND, r. n,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Amerfcans are the most inventive race
on siSs3ebe. aud It seems singular that
no plan for making 1lIea stay In bed until
the entire household Is mp has yet been
patented.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

The average majority Of the Republi-
can legislative ticket in Marion county is
abont $50. NJ. C. George gets over 500
majority i'm the county.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Dentist, Albany, Oregon. Once in Fos-
ter's brick block. np stairs. at large bay
window. Prices in proportion TO TINE and
MATERIAL consumed. 1l.34
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Hon. NJ. C. George goes to the Cas-.
cades with 2, 900 majority or more. ana is
elected to Congress by at least 1900 ma
iority. 'Rah the tall FIR of old Linn.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

WascO county gives Republican
majority for the entire ticket. Send
the news TO Meriar!
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Tbs Boston Asssstfser having saias that
sAfr. TsIden holds tie key aot ne demo
cratic sIfuaeion. . the WaAhsaeton poss
asks what good it Win de EknNIk he Ioass
the combination
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

The poll books were all received by
the County Clerk yesterday, and the
counting was to commence to-day.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Gen. Ben Butler, who is now doing
California, contemplates a trip to Oregon
before returning to the East.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

The business of the .'campaign lIar'' Is
closed for a@peIl, and the man who ..nail-
ed'' the lief waS 50 ovcrworked that he Is
already dkad.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

How foolish for artists to represent Gu
pil as the god of love. when we all know
that an old stocking tull Of money has mere
influences thai forty cupils crowded Up
together
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11
BuIIy for Bensoa.1

Benton county is reported Republican
sylit, with the excetttCn Of joint State
Senator although the contest was close for
both Clerk ana Sheriff, the former getting
some 20 odd and the latter 30 or IS ma
jorify. Woodward was elected State Sena-
Tor TO MI vacancy Glow, Of Polk. Demo.
crat. beat Bensell, OF Benton. Republican,
for joint Senator, by a small majority.
On the Representative ticket, Hon. F. NJ.
Vaasworth led the ticket, with Waggoner
and Carer close behind-three stauncI,.
tried ana true Republicans. 'Rah for Ben-
ton.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Hons n. c.. George goes to Wasco
county with $500 majority. Set 'cm
mp!
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Republicans bury their own dead.
Zee vote for Coroner in Linn county.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11
The coun.y-.eas ausss,.n, Decided.

Dallas. Polk county. retains the county
seat by 200 majority.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
BURMAH.
A Good Country to Emigrate From.

CALCUTTA, INDIA, April 10.-Recent
information from Burmah, received here,
is to the effect that the Mandalay astrol-
ogists, according to an ancient custom,
have advised King Theebams, recon-
mending that, in order to remove the
evils of famine from the land, it would
be necessary to offer a human sacrifice.
This sacrifice, according to the fiat of the
astrologists, should consist of 100 priests,
and the remainder of the 400 victims
1.-THE number named) are to be chosen
from men, women and children. In obe-
dience to the astrologist's instructions,
the King ordered the arrest of suffl-
cient plumber Of persons whose blood
was to appease the wrath of the god Of
famine.
Many arrests have been made, but in
consequence of all the priests fleeing
who have heretofore enjoyed immunity
from the heather sacrifice, the day has
not yet been fixed for the human slaugh-
ter. The priest exodus from Mandalsy
has been 80 complete that not one man
of God remains in the district.
The authorities assaulted the Catholic
Convent in order to obtain victims for
the sacrifice among the girls in attend
ance there, but determined resistance
was made by the Sisters, and the attempt
was frustrated. In the assault several
officials were Killed.
The people of the country are greatly
alarmed and have become justly indig-
nant at the folly Of the King in his inhu-
man superstions, but are entirely help
less to effect change.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
belmont Chronicle, 9th inst.)
Suicide.

Last Thursday afternoon, between 4
and 5 o'clock, Seth Ward, farmer resi-
ding at the mouth of Piney Fork, Wash
ington township, committed suicide by
hanging, under the following circum-
stances: Some time during the afternoon
Ward told his wife that be wanted to
find some screw-taps to repair pillow,
which he thought were in a box up
stairs, and went up stairs ostensibly for
that purpose. Instead, however, as the
sequel shows, he found several pieces of
trace chain, which he tied together so as
to make chain of some length, after
which he went to the barn, looped the
chain around his neck, and fastened one
end of it to beam, and swung off from
the steps leading to the NOW. About s
O'Clock the wife and little son went to
the barn to look after Mr.. W., when the
horrid spectacle met their gaze of the
husband and father suspended by the
neck, quivering in the agonies of death.
With stout nerve and strong arm, the
wife threw her arms around his body,
and eased him down while the boy cut
one of the strings with which the chains
were bound together, and an attempt
was made to restore the life which had
barely flown, but of no avail.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
again; her baby fills every want of her

again; her baby fills every want of her
warped existence
At twilight l drove past "Factory
Row" to get another glimpse of the
beautiful Elsie Chaduk. The tenement
houses were swarming with factory
hands, enjoying the freshness of even
ing after sultry day. There were
flowers in many of the window boxes,
an air of cleanliness and thrift in the
midst OF poverty. At an open window
/ saw Margaret She was sitting in a
low wooden rocker. Her baby was in its
white night-gown. 1t knet and said its
evening prayer at Old Margaret's knee.
I stopped and watched this strange
mother and child. A kiss followed the
prayer, then the baby climbed into Mar
garet's lap, wound her arms about the
crooked neck, and kissed the ngly face
all over. Her golden hair fell in rip
ping shower around the dwarf; the pref
ty child laughinglv looped her long ring
lets over the mothers bowed head, and
thus hidden by the veil Of innocence,
sinful Old Margaret disappeared, and
only the angel of her life was seen.
E. Fl.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
How he Helped the Church.
New Haven Palladium.

A well-known Hartford gentleman
was unable to attend the sale of the
pews of his church the other day, and
he requested friend to bid in for him
8 pew for which be had for many years
paid fifty dollars. Later he met another
friend, and, incidentally mentioning that
he would not be able to attend the auc-
ton, asked his friend also to see to it
that he had his old pew as heretofore.
The auction took place and the pew wss
put up. Fifty dollars" said friend
number one. "Fifty-one," said number
two. "Fifty-three," '.ffty-four," and
so till .here had been thirty-eight bids,
when one friend thinking be had gone
as far as discretion permitted, stopped,
and the other took it triumphantly at
Lightweight dollars. "Put it down for
Dr." he said, and the astonish-
ment of the other knew no bounds.
They had been bidding against each
other, both in behalf of the same gentle
man, who had forgotten to tell number
two that he had also spoken to number
one. The church is so much better of.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
CLOSING SCENES.

Madison Square Garden was we'll filled
with people before dark. An hour later
it was crowded. On the benches were
many ladies, and all positions affording
view of the track on which the eight
weary men were completing their tre-
mendous task were struggled for before
the lights were lit. Hart's success was
evident long before the race was over
1t was assured before midnight of the
day previous, therefore all the interest
that centered in him was to know how
far be could go before he quit. Referee
Curtis said he could go till Mon
day night. "Why, look at him." be
continued, as the great coffee colored
traveller dashed by. "Why, he is rum
ming on bis toes like sprinter." And
so the sturdy young man was. His legs
were timber, his temper undisturbed and
his pleasure in his own triumph as keen
as though sleep and rest had been his
portion for the last LA hours. His per.
formance has been indeed wonderful
one. Of sleep he has had but % hours,
and his great task was accomplished un-
der adverse circumstances of which the
public knew nothing. On Wednesday
morning he was sick man. He fought
with his trainer when aroused from sleep
and refused to go on the track All that
DAY he fought against the demand for
sleep and the illness that oppressed him,
and overcame it IL hours later. After
that.he went on right royalty to the end,
on his last few miles laughed and chstted
with The people as be passed, and Tested
with Jayhee who reappeared about eight
o'clock; and when the belt was won and
put upon i'm he ran around the circle
like 9 deer, capering nimbly as he ran.
and bursting into laughter as he entered
his tent with the trophy of victory upon
him. In winning the belt he also won
the $4,000 entrance money of all the
walkers, Is per cent of all gate receipts,
which sum up in round figures 81, 500,
and the $1,000 special prize offered for
the man beating the best record. In all
about SIT 500 is the reward of his weeks
work. Pegram gets $3.50; Howard
S1,S75; Dobler 1882 so; Allen S49l
%; Khrone something over 5000. Will
liams gets half of..that and Hanwaker
half of that again, or only about $50.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
Secretary sherman,

Protiting by the failure of his trip to
Ohio, has reconsi1ered his determination
to 60 to Boston in the interest of his
boom, and has wisely concluded to FORE
90 further worry in his chase for the
Presidency. He is very much demora-
lized-more SO than before his Ohio Wis.
it. The fact that Blaine has walked off
with the first county delegation chosen
to the Ohio State Convention is not at
all assuring to him, and the less so be-
cause 1t Is country in district which
he had regarded as one Of his strong
holds. Congressman Updegraff,in whose
district Jefferson County is located, wal
ted on sherman to-day and told him
that, while the delegation chosen Satur-
day was favorable to Blaine, it would
first vote for Sherman.-F Fashington
Telegram. 9th inst.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
She Knew All About 1t.
Detroit Free Press. !

Just about midnight the other night,
four men in Detroit saloon sat looking
at fifth The fifth was drunken than
the other four. While all men were cre-
ated equal, some men get drunk twice
as fast as others.
s'It will never do to send him home in
this condition." said one of the four af-
ter long silence.
"No, it would break his wife's heart"
added second.
"But we can't leave him here, and if
we turn him out the police will run him
in," observed the third.
Il have been thinking" mused the
fourth. "He has a telephone in his
house. Here ls one here. / will make
it my painful duty to inform his waiting
and anxious wife that he won't be home
tonight"
He went to the telephone, got her call,
and began:
"Mrs. Blank, / desire to communicate
with you regarding your husband"
NV ell, GO ahead"
she ls down town Dere.
81 know that much"
"In descending the stairs leading from
the lodge room he fell and sprained his
ankle"
"Are you sure it wasn't his neck ?"
she asked.
"It is not serious sprain, but we
think it better to let him lie on the sofa
in the ante-room until morning. Rest
assured that he will have the best Of care.
We are doing ev-"
"Say" broke in sharp voice, "you
bundle him into wagon and drive him
up here, where can keep him hidden
until that drunk goes off! He wont be
sober before tomorrow night"
--~@'' MY dear mad"
"Get out! If he's sleepy drunk put
water on his head! That's the way l
always do"
"Will you let me inform you that"
"No, sir, won't! Throw water on
his head, get him into some vehicle and
rattle him up here, for it's most midnight
now, and it will take me half an hour to
get his boots off and push him up stairs ;
Remember-pour water on his head and
yell fire in his carp
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
THE IRON TRADE.
Has 1t Come TO- stand-Stili?

PIrTsBURGH, Pa, April GA Sigh
furry was occasioned in business circles
to day by rumor that the iron trade
had come to stand-slill, and that in all
probability number of mills would
temporarily shut down. IA number Of
manufacturers are known to have beefi
opposed to the last advance of thecnrd
rate to four cents, and many predicted
that itHwould cause aserious deprecia-
ton in sales and consequent stagnation
till some backward step could be taken.
One prominent manufacturer who was
interviewed on the subject said: 49,
at is true, we have ceased work at
one of our mills, for. thes teaso1iE That
there are no orders Our warehouses are
all full; we are stocked up, and thereare
absolutely no orders. 1--WE do not pro
pose to start until we can get prices that
will pay US for what we make. The res4
son why we feel the dulless of tradeso
much sooner than many others is because
we have but few contracts at low prices
that run any lengthIof time.p yfnesp
! He also intimated that some manufac1
turers we're quotedly cutting under the
card-rate adopted. ltl wpa hss -gM
Another manufactures, said the market
was exceedingly dull, and had been SO
for thirty days. He said further that
there were number of reasons Why the
market was at stand-still now: First Of
all, the month ofaJanuary, usually one
of the dullest OF the year, was this sea-
son the liveliest. People bought heavily,
fearing an advance. Hence, when, March
and April, usually lively months, set in,
there was no market. The BUYERS were
heavily stocked and would not buy agaiD,
except from hand to mouth, in anticipa-
ton OF falling market. ! sEiSo ~
This gentleman said that his own mill
was running, but the stock.houses were
being filled, orders were few, ard if the
dullness continued their mill would shut
down. He did not know whether any
action would be taken toward reducing
the card, but it is not, Improbable, il
trade did not brighten very soon. -
Speaking of any action the Western
Iron Association might take, he said the
public generally attached more import.
ance to the organization than really was
its due. 1t was hardly more than an ar.
arrangement by which manufacturers might
meet, exchange views and talk over The
past and future. 1t had not been of vast
usefulness Of late. It was good deal
like Congress-that is, it met too often.
II it convened once in FIVE years perhaps
1t would be beneficial. The result Of It's
action Of late had been simply to. in
crease the price of labor without cor
responding increase in the selling price
of iron. Manufacturers were now pay
ling from 50 to $5 more for iron in, mills
than they could afford. Iron was being
tsOid at less than -FOUR cents, and even
lower than three and half cents. II
was true that within ten days there might
be general Frightening OF the trade
Believed there would be strong, healthy
demand for iron all the season, but not
at the price now demanded. The wages
question did not enter into the matter,
because the contract with the iron-work4
ers was regulated by the market price.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20

EF There is man living near Lam.
bertviile, N. j., who is eighty-one years
old and who has never been out of Hun
terdon county. He is very well salts
fed with his condition and says:
II care nuthin' about seein' the world.
My own little village here and my small
gatherin' of true friends is all desire.
| read the papers regularly, and find
that there is heap of bickerin' and
strife outside which we avoid in oul
quiet home. ! remember good way.
back, and have watched many change.
since | was a boy, but all my affection,
and associations are round here. d,
not have to chop wood; but like tn
exercise, and it keeps me movin'. I'v
never been married, and have laid asid
a tolerable neat sum in the Frenchtowl
Bank for old age"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
The Fish Didn't Bite.
Detroit Free P1ess.l h


A very short old man, having 4 dried
herring on string and O fish-pole on
his back, and the line on bis hook baited
with piece of salt pork. yesterday halt.
ed a pedestrian at the ferry wharf and
began: s fsw sas eife
"Have you a human heart in your
breast p -
eyes, / suppose it'r human" replied
the man. esga 2 a-aM =
"Then for goodness sake, lend me
quarter for few days. I've been fish.
ing here right along for four hours, and
this is the only thing I've caught''gA
"Fm not responsible for, your bad
LUCK" said the citizen.
"But am II Can / make fish bite
if they don't want tor I've sat here
and spit on this halt and bobbed nv line
up and down till I'm clear broke down.
1t seems to me as if ! didn't care to live
another day" ..2',s
swell didn't tell you to go fshinc.''
"Sposen you didn't? When YOU see
an old man trying to get along and catch
sucker to take home to his zstaryins
family can't you feels little human to-
ward himp Think of my taking home
this old smoked herring and trying to
pass it off on my confding wife as al
able-bodied pickerel" $50 Yt.sss aa,
"But ! can't give you quarter,n pro.
tested the citizen. Sim not going to be
held responsible for your bad lack rhen
you go fishing" s.sa,s 80
"The case stands like this" said the
old man, as he swung his pole around
and knocked mans hat of, II come
down here to fish. I bob and fish and
spit and fish and bob. No luck, rIpay
out my last cent for this old herring,
hoping he may prove a sort of attrac.
ton for other fish. No 90. He simply
attracted dog and lost his tail by 4
bite. am now crushed and lsoul-sick,
] aun about to return to my wife, who
expects me to bring a sucker two feet
long. What shall | say to her r. : ss9
Tell her it was a poor day for fishing.'
"But women don't understand such
things. Oh, sir /! take this herring and
lend me a quarter! Give an old, man
some show" asp ~, ~.
"Can't do il" a sd, .sss
"Will you compel me to take this
home TO my family and tell 'em its the
only bite / had3 Have l, at INV age,
got to play the part Of deceiyer and
liar7 1t rests entirely with You. | place
my moral character and the happiness
Of my family entirely in your hands. .usF
The citizen turned coldly away and
inquired the price of grindstones OF
warehouseman. The old fisherman flung
his herring down, jumped on il viii
both feet, flung his fsh.pole off the
wharf and strode out of the crowd with
the remark: 8a3 l3s JAZZ
"Gentlemen, l can never, never. re-.
ward wife's confidence with, an old
herring! Rather than deceive her III
go and get drunk, and she'll fully under.
stand that no drunken man can tell the
difference between the bite of percb
and the sight of whale. When I am
full lay me in some quiet corner, and
don't let the police take this plug of to.
bacco out of my left hand pocketP'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
From the N. Y. World, 18th inst)
HARE'S VICTORY.
Five Hundred and Sixty.Five Miles
in Six Days.
The Record Badly Beaten.
Striking Incidents of the Last DAYS
Walk for the O'Leary Belt.

Frank Hart, the colored boy from
Boston, has won the greatest six days
walking match that has ever been con-
tested. II doing it he made the greatest
distance ever attained in thai time.-
When he stopped TO take the belt at 25
minutes afterf9 o'clock last night his
score showed b65 miles and I65 yards.
This is itife ever Is miles further than
Weston nsfalesl when he earned, his best
record, and it beats the record made by
Blower Brown on the week ending Feb
ruary 81, 1880, when his score showed
553 miles 165 yards. That was, until
last night, the greatest score ever made
The score at the close stood:
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-04-20
Aneh!y.
TO EDGAR A. POE'S
POEM, THE RAVEN.
B. A. ULRICH, in Inter. Ocean.

d. a. OLh1Cf1, III lUtGFsUCElB.
[Suggested by sermon of the Rev
MONROE GIBSON, at the Second Presby-
terian Church, Chicago.
Long upon the pillows driven, like vessel
tossed and riven,
Without rudder, chart or compass, safe to
guide it to the shore;
Was that soul of hope forsaken, ty its own sad
thoughts o'ertaken
By the voice Of bird thus shaken, croaking
e'er his door;
TO the soul the bird thus pleading sayings of
the Bible lore
Must be words and nothing more.
Had his eyes but left the raven and by chance
have seen engraveu
Near the pallid bust of Pallas, just above
the chamber door,
There. in zephyr worked, token, wrought by
her whose loss had broken
All his hopes her love had spoken-by his
loved and lost Leonore; ~
Words like these: "Be1ieve in Me, and thou
shalt live for evermore"-
Still not words, and nothing more.
Had that mind, so bright and gifted, to its God
that prayer but lifted,
"Ssying, us there balm in Gilead?-tell me,
Iimplore7"
And then stilled the tempest beating in his
heart by repeating
Words of love. Of faith entreating, which
|. the Savior spake of yore.
His sad soul would have been lifted from the
shadow on the floor,
Christ forsaking nsvermors.
Then 1.-THE air might have grown denser, per-
fumed by an unseen censor,
Swung by seraph whose faint footballs tin
kled on the tufted foor;;"
Then spirit ever living. and the words Of
truth e'er giving,
And the seeking. e'er forgiving, might have
crossed his chamber door
While he pondered long aud deeply or the
words of Bible lore
If not words and nothing more.
From the Bible, where it iveth. and to all men
seeking giveth,
As it lay mid "quaint and curious volumes
of forgotten lore"
And its bands it might have broken and the
truth it might have spoken
Truth arisen might have spoken, as it oft
hath done before
a bright and radiant spirit, springing from
that book Of yore-
Breathing, alive forevermore."