The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-07-10
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
"fhc peach crop Of California is almost n
total failure.
Anna Dickinson il cackling in San Fran.
cisco at present.
The rust is fast destroying the wheat crop
Of California.
Victor Emanuel cannot lie down for fear
of mn attack Of apoplexy.
There arc now living in Upson county,
California, an old couple, man and wife,
whose anited ages are 203. the man being
l0l aud the woman i02 years old.
The Iowa State Fair will give premium
To the prcttiest girl, without regard TO race,
color or previous condition.
Iowa will build new State House costing
=. 600. 900.
A man by name Of Thompson, at Nc.
Grcggor, Iowa, recently murdered family
by name Of IIaggerty, comprising husband
and wife and two boys. There is great ex-
citemcnt in the vicinity Of the tragedy.
4 Radical judge in Tennessee threatened
to send white man 10 jail, because he said
in court that he hoped soon 10 be a voter.
White men are not allowed to entertain or
express any hopes in the South.
Stanton, il is said, wears a steel collar
when he sleeps. Ills object is supposed 10
be TO protect his throat from the bony fingers
Of Mrs. surrnit. Were his collar of silver,
Ben. Butler would s,ea! II.
An exchange says: John Wilkes Booth,
the assassin OF Lincoln, has been Discovered,
alive and well, in Canton, STARK County,
Ohio, and the United States Marsha. oi the
Northern District was recently ,elegra rhcd
to from tha, place 10 come and arres, hii1.
/ The bachelor editors 0T Iowa have deter.
mined to hold their convention at the State
Reform school on All Fools day. Sensible.
Josie Russell, typoess in the Office Of the
Fl. Dodge North Hest, has taken "fal take
IN the shape Of husband.
The New York Herald Gays that ''all that
was wanting to the scene in Washington
around the niger fights and bonfres was
that tho triumphant niggers should have
eaten the man that was killed No doubr
some undertaken carried him away prema
turely."-
Radiealism IN Pennsylvania isn 4 healthy
The State Guard, one of the party organs
says i, has but zone more chance"
Wendell Phillips has dropped the niger
and now shouts fur the red man. lie think
a Iiule more "biood letting viii do u
good.
1 Young Brownlow charges Stokes with in
gratitude, because, ''my father, the governor
threw out some | 500 votes against him
thus securing his election to Congress las
year"
. Wendell Phillips advises the Indians t
haunt the Pacific Railroad. All right, then
. Uncle Sam will facilitate this l:lilc game L.,
) making ghosts Of them first.
The census If Mexico, just taken, show
the total population 10 be about : 10000
souls, which is n remarkable decrease.
Gen. Dis Is reported as saying, preeiden
Grant has fallen, nj last, in the hands Of pol
Q iticians, and although hc may mean well
bc cannot resist the influences around him
Ills appointments have been disappoint
mcnts, aud unless he retrieYes himself, hi
G ruin will be accomplished.
4 AIt. Pleasant, Iowa, woman has recent
fly been admitted to the bar. Her name i
e Mansfield.
Conventions are being held in Californi
for the fall election. 1t bids fair to be ho
contest.
e A clergyman in Norway, Maine, was re
. Gently detected in an improper intimac
!. with woman. She was banished and b
0 was tarrcd, feathered and ridden on a rail
/. A man in Australia has lost Ia 900 out q
!. 900 sheep for want Of water.
$ The Earl Of Fingal was found dead in hi
# bed about fortnight since. lie was boz
r at Geneva in 1871, and succeeded to the It'll
in 1896. lie was one of the leading Roma
: Catholic peers, but was opposed to ultrc
u montanism.
The companion of President Lopez,
d Paraguay, Madame Eliza Lynch, wa
e wounded in the .leck and left arm by musk
balls during the recent battles.
d Accents from the central portion of low
y say that the amount of corn in the hands
{, the farmers is estimated by the millio
bushels.
Mt King Solomon, (colorcd) was elected Ju
ID tice of the Peace in Savanna, Ca, on the 6i
lr instant