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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
The south america war.

The Republic of Peru seems to be
in decidedly bad way. The steady
stream of Chilean successes has cnntinu-
ed from the commencement OF tie war,
with only few comparatively uuimpor-
tant reverses. No: only have the Chill
can troops evinced better discipiine aud
fighting qualities than their adv ersaries,
but they appear to have been much
more ably commanded. AT present,
Peru seems very nearly in the condi-
ton OF subjngated country. Only a
small portion of the territcry of the Re-
public, outside ofits capital, rem aims in
the control Of the Government, and If
the capital itself should tall, the result
might be to obliterase Peru as sepaT-
ate State from future maps OF South
America. Such an event ought not
rerhaps to be regarded as thing to
be deplored. Chill is a progressive
State, and bears pretty nearly the
same relation toward Peru that the
United States hears toward Mexico.
With the addition of Peru to her
territoy she might develop Into con-
siderable power. She has at present s
population of less than 100000, occu-
pying long and narrow strip of coun-
try lying between the Andes and the
ocean, but extending over 1000 miles,
north and south, from Bolivia to Cape
Horn. The Chileans are by far the
most intelligent, energetic and progress
i've of all the South America popuia-
tions. They have been significantly
characterized as the "Yankees of South
America and should the entire wes-
tern coast of that portion of the con,i-
nent fall under their dominion, there
would be far better prospect tor the
development of its resources and the
establishment of higher civilization
and more stable government that
exists at present.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
lToseI Mysteries.

"Why is it," asked the man with
the sample case, "tl,at at the average
hotel the shortest man is always set
down at the end of the table, where
there is nothing, and where he can
reach nothing else %
"And why" asked the sad passen-
ger, sis the waiter alwa:s fluttering
over some deliberate, tussy old gour-
mand, who is going to stop over three
days anyhow, wien you have only
| fifteen minutes and then have to run for
your train 2"
"And why" asked the tall, thin
passenger, "is the black pepper cruet
always in the castor on the next table?"
"And why is i: empty when you get
it % asked the cross passenger.
ssAnd Why" asked the fat passenger,
''do the two young married people WHO
sit opposite you always stop eating and
gaze at you with such pitiful reproach-
fulness every time you look at them ?"
Sand Why" asked the brakeman,
coming in to light the lamp, "doesn's
the hash shave go
"Aud why" suddenly asked the wo-
man who talks bass, "don't men ever
talk sense ?''
The peaceful silence came drifting
into the car, noiselessly as Fundy fog.
until the car was full of it. And these
questions are unanswered conundrums
even unto this day, especially the last
| one.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
zro,, as. r.x,e <-.,sci.e. r..,,.

An Outline fisherman at New
Hamburg, being interviewed on the
subject yesterday, made quite an inter-
esting statement :"I've shot six or sew.
en- eagles the past winter ;jnst wound
ed them SO as to catch them alive for
parties in New York aud elsewhere.
You see eagles come to the mouth of
Wappenger's Creek to feed on carp
that's the kind ct fish that the Snpervis-
ors from Northeast was talkin' about
in the Board all winter. Well these
carp are red-they look like gold fish
There's lots OF 'en at the mouth of the
creek, both this side and the other
side of the Drake drawbridge. Did
you ever see an eagle go for ore of
them ? You didn't Well, you ought
TO see the big American emblem hover
for carp. The higher be gets over
the creek the better be can see. Yes,
that is strange, but it is just the same
WIFI tICut-HStliHS IL L am Oh a trout
stream and ii ink there are trout about,
and can't see them, I always scale a
tree and get on: on the branches and
look down. tor tell ycu you can see
good deal better than you can from
the bank of the stream. I don't know
why, but it is SO. I've seen an eagle
just skim the top of the Harlem Riv-
er Railroad drawbridge, flying to the
eastward, and when he reached the
cove inside, he'd raise 100 feet, and
then just stay still and 'hover' till lie
Spied carp in the water below, when
he'd circle down like a pair of stairs,
aud then he'd make 'swoop' right
| into the water and come out with Mr.
carp in his beak. and as he'd raise he'd
shift the carp to his talons and fly
away the Lord knows where. |
tell you kingfsher can't beat an eagle
on fishing excursion
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

Never was the ancient adase "there
is no accounting for tastes,'' more
quantity illustrated than by surpris-
ing story which reaches us from Neu-
start, IN Bohemia. One Peschka, an
innkeeper of that town, was bitten some
weeks ago by his own house-dog. Un-
willing to slay the animal on bare sus-
picion of it's sanity, he consigned to the
town grave-digger. el,j"ining that funct-
ionary 10 take care ut it until further
orders concerning its ultimate fate
should be impaired to him. A few
days later, however, Pe<c!,ka was at
tackled by bydrophobia, of which horri-
bic malady he died IL excruciatins
agony. The sanitary authorities of
Neustadt forthwith applied to the
grave-digger for the inad-dog committed
to his custody, intending TO have him
destroyed. Their astonishment may be
more readily conceiYed than described
wtren the sexton calmly observed, ss1fle
mad dog =? have eaten him - "Yon
have eaten the mad.dog 90 incredulous-
! ly exclaimed the horror stricken sanitary
officials. ''Better that than he should
eat me r' rejoined the philosophical!
grave-diggcr. 1t would appear not
only that this man of strange appetite
lad swallowed and digested the rabid
animal, but that it had agreed with
him for, as the story runs, he is still
in the enjoyment Of robust health, and
pursues his professional avocation with
urabsted tigor.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
A Swimmers Feat.

Captain Webb. the famous English
swimmer, has performed at London his
feat of remaining in the water for sixty
hours. He was to be allowed an inter
mission Of half an hour, but only took
twenty minutes to change his clothing
and stretch his limbs. The performance
took place in n 60 foot tank, 6 feet deer
and filed with artificial sea-water kept al
an average temperature of 20 degrees. He
ate and drank in the water. aud took sew.
eral short maps floating on his back. 1T
the conclusion of his feat, Captain Webb
turned Il couple of sumersanlts in the wat
er, from whisll he ascended briskly and
apparently none the worse for his INNER
sion.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

the remaining nine months OF the wear. as
it undoubtedly will be, the emigration
will be threefold as heavy as last
year. and the total this year will be about
three times I35, 900 (which was the num-
Der of emigrants arriving in the year 1879.
or over 400. 600 in all. being BY far the
heaviest European emigration to these
shores that has occurred in any year i'm the
entire history of the United States. The
average amotlnt of cash brought by emf
grants during the present year Mr.. Jack
taking the total of 400 600 emigrants
this year, it will he seen that here Is at
once an addition of about S24, 600. 900 of
readv hard cash TO this country This
$24. 100000 of ready hard cash brought
to this country ia of course but II very
small portion of the actuai and immediate
addition to onr production ard wealtI:
which the present flood OF emigration sup
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

Russia may well trembIe when she
sees China preparing to go to war with
her. As the latter country has about
400, 900. 900 people it could put Russia
INTO financial bankruptcy by merely
setting up its citizens as targets tor the
Russians to shoot at. Taking into con-
sideration the we'll known recklessnees
OF aim that distinguishes the Russian
soldier, the Gar will not have money
enough lett to board himself at a penny
restaurant If he furnishes powder and
ball to shoot at those laundrymen in the
FIowery Kingdom.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
An Ern of Famine.

The telegraph is again busy in chron-
icling famlnes, of which there seems
To be an era in various parts OF the
globe. The great famine in China last
year had scarcely passed away when
the news came of great calamity III
ireland, but to he quickly followed by
the news that a vast province III Brazil
was famine-stricken- This is stll sap
planted by another famine, which, ac-
cording to dispatches OF few days ago,
has broken out in Orenbcrg, where we
are informed thousands of families can
neither obtain food nor means to earn 1t,
there being great scarcity OF work a.
well as food. The scene of this fresh
calamity is in Russia. Orenoerg, a
province OF the empire, is partly situat-
ed in Europe aud partly in Asis.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

Several Thousand miles apart, :wo
embittered old men are working hard
at their memoirs, endeavoring, doubt
less, to explain their complete failure
in life, and to pour ont their Eong sup
pressed venom on people who haye
given them tancied canse of complaint
They are Jefferson Davis (ex-president
of the southern contederacy) and Achille
Bazaine (ex-marshal OF the French en-
pi'e)- Both are persons of the dead
past.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
UalIace-s BEif.

The bill reported by Wallace from
the Senate select committee to inquire
into alleged frauds in late elections,
aud to enforce the provisions of section
. of the 14th amendment to the consii-
tuition, provides THAT in future, in
taking enumeration OF inhabitants of
the several states. the superintendent of
census shal; acertain the number OF male
citizens Of the United States 81 years
of age and whose right to vote at any
election named in the 14th amendment
has been denied or in any way abridged
by the constitution or laws of any state
except as authorized by said amend
me ut.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

Five years ago next June the wife OF
Rev. Thomas Guard, while y,urGeyine
in the cars near New York, gave a
valuable diamond ring to her child to
play with, and the little girl, in throw
ing bit of orange-peel from the car
window, allowed the ring to slip from
her finger. Search for the ring was
made by employees OF the road, nn-
successfully, at the time, but it was
founti a few weeks ago by track-waIk-
er.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
The esln.aa.ss Umbrella.

"There," she cried, in ar excited
voice, should like to know what's
hecnme of that ambril | sot it up
ag,n the counter wfen / came in, AMI
atCrc ! could turn round il. gone
aud it was only Monday that gin
four AMI six fo:'; =" "Wfat kind of
an umbrella was it, mann !'' asked the
polite clerk in his blandest tones. GA
spick and span new gingham, young
man." was the eager response, "with
al iv'ry handle on't, and "a ''Like
this one in Your hand, ma'am, tor in
stance ?'' "Sakes alive 90 she exclaim-
cd. Md one might have Thought she
saw a serpent rather than her own
"spick and span gingham," with 'its
iv'ry handle" cis;tchei fast in her
hand. She coI"rcd up like a druggist =
window, and went off among unintelli-
gihle excuses. She rever felt SO f1u>ter-
cd in all her born days, as she told her
Jemima Ann when she got home.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
The Heaviest EmEgratiOn En the History
OF GEAe Country.

The year 1880 promises to be one of the
most noteworthy IN one respect ut least
namely. in showing the largest European
emigration to these shores which has oc.
Cured in any one year In the entire history
OF this country. During the first three
months OF the present year ending March
3lst, the number of emigrants arriving
was over $4,000 as against oaly IL 900 for
the corresponding period of three months
last year, aud IL ills ratio Is kept up feg
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

The oil lands OF Peru are on the
coast region. They extend from Cape
Blanco to the Tumbez River, distance
of l29 miles. The tract is sixty miles
wide, and contains $500, 900 acres
Where the waves of the Pacific Ocean
have worn away the rocks, the oil
trlckles out, aud may be I.sced for
ninety railcsaloDg the coast
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

There is nothing like providing the
public with good reading-matter.
A Washington belle is said to have worn
anklet bangles to recent New York Ger
man.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14

Pasteboard shutters are now made
III imitation OF wood. This is merely
for blind.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
ITS Ingredients.

To show faith in the safety and excellence os
the x. B., upon proper personal application, whsn
satisfied that no imposition is intended, We viii
give the names OF all It's ingredients, by afdavit.
prietor of any other Family Medicine in the world
Many tegtimOnialss o. further information and
full directions for using will be found IA the pane
phiet Treatise on Diseases of the Blcod.p in
which each bottle enclosed Price per bottle
Ginning IL ounces, 10 to 50 doses. Sold nv rs1r.
Sasss. u. RANSOM, ,soE q Co, Proprs. .Bufalo N ~
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
King Of the Blood

ing from Impurity of the blood. 1t is needless to
specify ALL the sufferer usually perceive their
cause but Sail Ttetfns, Eimples, Ulcers, Tunsors,
Goitre, Siuellin1s &C., the common, as
well many affections Of the Heart, Head, LiUer
and Stomach.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-05-14
@1.o q q

viii be paid to any Public Hospital to be musus
ally agreed upon, for every certificate of this ue
zine published by us which is not genuine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24
THE ARKANSAS REFUGEES
Members OF the COIOred Union
Opposed 10 Aiding Them
Further-The Why and
wherefore.
N. Y. Herald. 2Oth.l

N. Y. Herald, 2Oth,l
A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Colored Union of the
Young Mems Christian association
took place yesterday afternoon at No.
10 West Twenty-sixth street, MI. p,
A. Walter, the vice-president, in the
chair. The condition of the refugees
was discussed. The quarters in which
they were now, it was stated, could
not be had after the LIST of May. and
what was to become of them till and
after then? 1t was stated by a mem
Der Of the relief committee that there
was a moneyed contingent among
these refugees, and that some were
able to take care of themselves; that
those who had no money refused TO
work, and thought thew we're safe
as long as they were under the pro-
lection of the cOlored union. The
report of the committee was then read.
1t stated that their object was TO ~
quire into the condition of the reiu
gees up to date. They had found
that the majority OF them were in
favor of going to Liberia; that those
few who wished to remain were very
idle; that they seemed disposed to
keep all they could get and had been
even known to steal what they had
been refused; that there existed
among them a moneyed element who
refused to help them themselves.
They therefore proposed that they
should Immediately cease to solicit aid
Tor the refugees; that they should re-
fuse the moneyed element any fur
Their assistance; that they could find
their own board, ETC., that they should
return all clothes they had in hand
to the safe keeping Of the colored
Young Mems Christian association;
that if any Of them wanted VOL
they should find it for themselves
from the labor committee of the asso.
tiation; and, finally, that those who
would go to Liberia must obtain hell
from those in sympathy with the
movement. This report excited con-
siderable CONSERVATION among many
present, and caused a very animated
and bitter discussion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24
Dying Faction.

Philadelphia Bulleten.l
In that remarkable and amusing
speech to which he alluded the other
day; Nj. De La Matyr, the greenback
congressman from Indiana, secuted
the idea that the greenback party
has reached the end Of its career. He
declared that it had, in fact, just sue
ceeded in getting firmly on its legs.
He urged, with fervid eloquence, that
"The great conflict has only be
gun. This revolt against the money
despotism, in its bearing upon the dis
enthrallment Of the race, has no paral-
lei in the revolutions accomplished
thus far by the christian civilization.
In its vastness and grandeur it sur
passes them all. Such a revolution
must Of necessity be slow in getting
fully under way. Its incipient move.
ments may be easily checked tempo
rarily; but when the force Of momen-
tum is once secured it will become re-
sistless." Those are resembling peri
DDS, but they do not tell the truth
about the greenback faction.
AS a practical matter OF
fact that party is no longer a discerni-
BILE force in American politics. What
its few lingering adberents do or say
or think is regarded by the people
and by the politicians as Of no posi-
bly, consequence so far as it may
Influence the elections; and the green
hackers themselves have admitted
their loss OF strength by showing little
disposition to hold conventions and
to put tickets in the field. 1t is more
than doubtful if any one of their
representatives who is now in congress
could be reelected upon a rag-mOney
issue. The people who used to vote
that ticket have lost all their interest
in the subject; the best orators Of the
faction would be described by Lord
Beacons6elda as exhausted volcanoes
and the republicans and democrats
who have been accustomed to send
out from their own ranks words oil
cheer to the greenbackers have be-
come discreetly silent concerning the
theories Of an organization in which
they never had faith enough to per,
suade them to cast in their fortunes
with it.
The insurmountable obstacle to The
further advancement of the green.
back cause is, that prosperity has moi
| only raturnad without the ~nraotioa'
assistance Of the greenback doctrine
but in very spite Of them. IF De Ii
Matyr and his fellow fanatics hav,
been right, then the country, %insteaC
of being prosperous, ought to be upoI
the brink OF ruin. We have done the
things that they declared would in.
volve us in ruin, and instead of beinI
ruined we are running our mills, fac
tories and workshops on full time, the
working people are getting good wage
and striking for better, and nobody Il
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24
Conger's Contemplate Course

special to the Courier journal
WASHINGTON. April 20.-The re-
publicans in the house wasted the
whole day in 6li~bustering. Mcmahon
attempted to get up the immediate
deficiency bill, which contains the
Garfield amendment modifying the
marshals' law. This was thoroughly
debated when the bill was up origi.
naliy, aud the senate amendment is
immaterial, simply making the
appointing power the circuit
court instead Of the circuit judge.
Notwithstanding all that has been
said the republicans demanded more
general debate, while the democrats
insisted that no debate should be had
except under the FIVE minutes rule.
After an hour or 10 spent in dilatory
motions, Garfield went to McMahon,
and said he wanted to speak about
twenty minutes. Mcmahon told him
that was eminently proper, as the
marshals' amendment was his own,
and he would promise for the demo
Gratis that he Gar6eld) should have
twenty minutes, and that Reed, Of
Maine, should have forty minutes.
Garfield, however could not secure the
consent Of his side. Conger found out
that Garfield wanted to speak fOl
the marshals' amendment, anC
insisted that his time should
come out of the time Of the
democrats. He evidently wanted tC
bumiliate Garfield. Mcmahon then
had a conference with the Michigan
obstructionist, telling him that Gar,
J field was the leader Of the Republican
side and that courtesy demanded that
he should have a share of time giveI
to his party. Conger, however, would
have none of it, but insisted that i
Garfield wanted to speak for the Dem.
oerats he should speak on the Dem
%ocrats' time. To this the Democrats
objected, and then Conger and his as
sociates began their fl~ibustering tao
tics, which lasted all day. Disguised
with Conger's contemplate course
Garfield spent nearly all the Afternoon
in the Senate.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24
A WIFE sURDERER
To Be Hanged at Ozark, Ark.
May 2Sth.
Littla Rock aarstta. alst.l

Little Rock Gazette, 2lst.l .ryc
At last the fate Of Edmunds is
sealed. He is to be hanged at Ozark
on the 18th of May. His Jail expert
ence must have been full Of suspense.
His straw pillow must have been one
Of intense anxiety. AT one
time an almost materialiEed hope
that he would be pardoned;
at another, a gloom as dark
as the mouth Of a tunnel staring him
in the face. Edmunds came to this
state from Kentucky. A girl accom-
panied him. The girl was last seen
in his company near Ozark, on the
Arkansas river. Some time after this
her remains were taken out Of the
river. Edmunds had gone back to
Kentucky, but a requisition
brought him back. He could
give no satisfactory state
ment. At his trial every fact that
could be produced, and a crushing
array Of circumstantial evidence was
brought against him. The jury
brought in a verdict Of guilty and he
was sentenced to be hanged together
with the wife murderer whose execu-
ton at Ozark found such universal
publication. Only few
hours before the time fixed
for the execution, an appeal in behalf
Of Edmunds, was taken to the supreme
court. A notification that the appeal
had been granted reached Ozark none
too soon, for the sheriff had declared
that ne would not wait. Allthe facts
and the array Of circumstantial evil
denee was reviewed by the supreme
court, and an opinion was rendered
sustaining the decision Of the court
below. Still another effort was
made, Judge Saunders, Of Kentucky,
came to this state with a long petition,
praying the governor to commute the
sentence to Imprisonment for life.
Once again all the evidence was re-
viewed, and still there was no light
for the misguided young man. So, on
the 18th of next month, Ozark will be
the scene of another legalized trag.
edy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24
TIE TERRTBLE STORY.
DardaneIle and Fayetteville Suf-
fer-Eight Persons Killed
at Ell PaSO.
Little Rock Gazette of the 2lst.l

Little Rock Gazette of the 2lst.l
One Of the most disastrous storms
that has ever been known in this state
spread its destructive wings over the
country last Sunday night. Reports
from numerous towns tell of al
most unprecedented disasters. A
colored woman and a colored
child were killed, while several white
people were badly injured. Almost
the entire business part of the city
was destroyed. Dardanelle was great
ly injured, and several persons were
crippled. But from FL Passo comes
the most disastrous report, DR. Har-
ston and wife, and Mr.. 0. P. Pool,
wife and four children were killed.
The wind came with a force that swept
everything before it, and the extent Of
its destruction is by no means hall
known.