The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-09-02
PACIFIC COAST GLEANIGs.

III " saiu tuat Joo leat now OWN IL
900 acres Of land in Oregon.
The Salem mills during the past year
made Al, 500 barrels Of -four.
There will be two tbeaters IN Salem
during the sitting OF the Legislature.
There aro 40s inhabitants in Tilla-
nook county, l25 of whom are voters. :
Marion county has 9,94+ inhabitants;
Clatsop has 1855, aud Columbia has
S63.
Tho wheat crops 10 the Waldo Hills,
Marion county, average nearly 35 bush.
els to tho acre.
Lake, of Castello's Circus, last week
purchased near Scio colt with six we'll
developed legs.
The Railroad will be completed to
Lake La Bischc. about 0 miles below
Salem, by Saturday.
John Singer. Of Canyonville, accident.
ally shot himself so badly, that his arm
had TO be amputaied.
A Chinaman was accidentally drowned
las. week in Umpqua river and is now in
the Celestial Kingdom.
The MasoDs and Odd Fellows are talk
ing cf erecting large building in Salem
for their use conjointly.
Two horses and ten tons OF hay were
consumed by the burning Of barn near
McMinnville, last week.
The OreJonian tbinks the census re-
turns, when all are 10, will give Oregon
about 100, 900 iphabitants.
A man named Charley Thomas wn,
killed by the caving in Of we'll, ai
Oys,crville, on the 22d inst.
A coal mine has been discovered about
l2 miles from Scio, which is said to pro
duce tho " clcan thing land is cx,cp
sive. .-.F
Gov. Woods has gone to California
Probably he couldn't stand 1t TO witness
the c,ppo1head" assembling in Salem
next Monday week.
Last Saturday night n man, named
Rudolph Imsher. fell from the bluffs n
Oregon City. distance Of go feet. anc
was instantly killed.
The recent Ere Mt Canyon City wal
not Us great as at first reported, as mos
all of the goods in what are called fire
proof cellars were untouched.
| Another little girl aged about l3 year
was las, week rescued from house o
prostitution in Portland, whittier sh
bad been coaxcd by an abandoned wo
man.
Mr. J. j. Williams. living near scio
while oiling some Of the machinery OF
Of n thresher, was caught by the revolv
ing machinery, aud his arm frigh,fuil
mangled.
The editor Of the Bedrock Democra
says he is trying hard to get his courag
up to the sticking point 50 that he ca
patronize. some she. Indians for whoI
tlcberrics.
Thomas Trainor, The bosom compau
ion of Shultz, the highwayman, was Ia,
week captured at Ccmeu,villc, opposi,
Astoria, where he had taken a summer
job in a>miIl.
U. S. Geological Engineers have al
rived in Portland for the purpose &
surveying the snow Mountains Of tb
Cascade range in respect to topograph,
botany, geology &c.
Ben. Holladay has now on the railroa
Eve first class locomoiivcs-the J. ]
Stephens, Portland, Oregon, Clackam'
and AIbany-,hc latter VIC presume, b
ing named for our city.
, Fabulously rich diggings have bee
discovered on Pitt River, California
from which l2 pounds of gold, or 81. 40
, was taken out in one day. Five claim
, are held by their owners at $1,000
apiece.
!, Las. week, French boy named Fran
Parsce, was shocklnyly mangled an
killed by bear while hunting stock O
l Dry creek in Jackson county His r
!. mains were found only after several da,
search. a
DR.. Hawthorne has offered the follow
= ing premium to be paid at the Sta
D Fair: He viii give. to the maker of II
best sample of butter, Of tweuty-f'
. pounds weight, and put up before Jul
) lst Of this year, ladies' riding sadd
worth SIS.
The Scio News says that "ex-Lor,
0 Mayor Stroud thought he had lit on th
4 where bouts of Shultz few days az
= whilo on tho Roaring river, but was su,
denly taken all-aback by finding it w
only ex-Sherif Murphy making love
! a young Lady, and angling for trout
Which was the most scared, his cx. Ma
orship his ex Sheriffship or sweet du
cetta is doubtful. as each took the 9th,