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Show OR EGOS. The prospect for stock wintering without feat is not so good as common. com-mon. A suit for slander in Douglas county, coun-ty, last week, panned out one dollar in damages for the plaintiff. James Williams, of Douglas county, coun-ty, has been sent to the penitentiary ibr two years, (or larceny. A school teacher named nice, at rieosberg, has been bound over in tho sum of !s500 for whipping a boy seven years old. A hundred head of beef steers were lCCCntlv brotl-rht from Orhnnn tn Sa- 1cm and sold for three and a quarter cents per pound. The total amount of city taxes collected col-lected and reported by the City Marshall Mar-shall of Albany for 1S73 is $3,377.30, leaving but $19 as delinquent taxes for the year. On Thursday morning, the 23th ul-irao, ul-irao, the stable or David Kelly, of 3 ocahontas, Baker county, caught l.re and was entirely burnt down, to-ether to-ether with a quantity of hay and two or three sets of harness. It is rot known how the fire caught. Loss bW or 1,000. " 1 A serious cutting affray occurred af Ashland, Oct. GOth, in which a man named John C. Perry.alias Texas was seriously, if not fatally stabbed by a shoemaker nanuKt August Waiters. Whiskey was tho cause. A discovery has recently been made at Conner creek, Baker county, by Toland, of a good quart? ledge, situated situa-ted within a mile of Palmer Co.'s mill, which promises well. The vein is full three feet in width, and shows tree gold. Six years ago one James East killed kill-ed a man by the name of Scott, who ! then resided on Butter creek, Umatilla ' county, Oregon. He made his escape 1 but was indicted by the grand jury, ! which indictment stands against him jstil'. On Monday morning last week ho returned to Pendleton, and sur- rendered himself lo the proper au-j au-j thorities. |