The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-07-22
THE wurAr MARkrr.-we congratulate

The WHEAT MARKET.-we congratulate
our farmers on the prospect of the advance
inrwheat which is now almost imminent
Our latest advices from San Francisco state
that purchases Of wheat under 81 cannot be
made in any quantities, and -four is quoted
at SIS 50(a6 so. In New York California
X wheat is quoted at 81 Is, and in Liverpool
ait l2s. an advance of to cents ovcr Sat,
urday. In Chicago corresponding advance
with New York is quoted, with the market
4 showing still an upward tendency.
Long continued drouth has rendered II
certain that the wheat crop Of France will
fall considerably below the average and the
weld of Great Britain viii also be reduced
from the same cause, though not to so great
an extent, while the political difficulties be.
tween Russia and Egypt, on the one side,
and Turkey on the other, threaten to inter.
fere with the supply from Asia Minor and
the Crimea which have hithorto sent large
quantities of wheat to Western Europe. In
view Of these facts, Prussia, France and
England will find it necessary to procure
brsadstuffs from the United States to supply
their vast armies, and as the wheat crop is
either a total or partial failure in many OF
the Atlantic States, the Pacific coast will be
the great mart for supplies. California will
hardly raise an excess of what she will re-
ouire for home consumption, and so our own
Oregon bids fair to End q ready market for
her vast fields Of wheat at the highest hg-
urcs known for years As yet the uncer
aainty attending foreign affairs has held
dealers in check, but If matters progress. as
they almest surely will, to a conflict OF arms.
We may confidently look for a lively and
csnssxatly Increasing demand for cur now
ripening grain.
ALBANY ScuooL.-Last Friday the Al.
bany District School closed its SUNNI term.
and will now take vacation Of month or
so, when the fall terra will commence, of
which due notice will be given The follow.
ing roll of honor for the last term has been
handed us by Mr. Thos. 6. Taylor, the,
Priaeipal of the school: =
HIGHER DEraErssSr.
Ist Grammar Class-Miss Mary Kennedy,
1st honor Miss Anna Fernside, I'd. I'd
Grammar CIass-Master Granville briggs,
1st; Miss Elizabeth Mealey, I'd.
4,h Geography-Ella Ke;chum, lst; An
ma Fernsidc, ID. Sd Geography-Oscar
Bellinger. 1st; Lulu Beach, ID. I'd Geog-
raphy-PhiIip Low, lst; Rometta Bartges,
ID. lst Geography-Ned- Gird, lst; Olive
Culver, ID.
LIST Glass in Orthography-1st Division
Anna Fernside, lst; Siloma Hale and Mary
Kennedy Ia tie44, ID. ID Division-Sarah
Kennedy, list; yiro.da Alexander, ID. Sd
Division-Wm. Miller, 1st: Lucy Mark
ham, ID.
I'd Class in orthography-1st Division
Geo. Foster, 1st, Oscar Bellinger, ID. I'd
Division-Miss Nellie Haeklcsnan, ist 8
Mary Irvine, ID. Sd pivision-'Dcila Par
rish, Ist; VIM. Westfall, ID.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
1st Geosraphy-Dora McCord, 1st; Mil
lard Steward, ID.
orthography-1st Division-Dora Nc
Cora, sst; Laura Hale, ID. 2i Division
Minnie Rankin. LIST; Alice Bclieu, ID. ID
Class-l<t Division-May Parrish, lsti An
ns Powell and Eddie Thompson Ia tie1, ID.
ID Division-E Eddie Dooiittle, 1st; Walter
Bartges and Bella Cannon Ia tiel, I'd.
Stone CoAL.-Mr. l.. c. Burkhart last
Tsesday left in our Office some specimens of
mineral substances which have all the evi-
dences of certain quality of stone COAL
By burning piece of the rock it was dis
covered to have the strong smell and all the
infamable characteristics of the bitumen,
but is deveid Of the high lustre and COM
pactness of the anthracite coal 1t burns
freely and makes hot fire, and we think
Las all the properties necessary to render it
useful rs stone coal. The specimens were
taken from a vein in the Cascade mountains
about fifteen miles frosa the line of the rail
road survey and is accessible by all the or
binary modes of conveyance. Mr.. Burk-
hart informs US that the groupings Of coal
we're easily diseernable for fully one hun
dred yards, and he thinks the vein is mex
haustible. The rock on which the bed of
eeal rests is almost of the hardness and con-
sistesey of granite, and the veia is covered
with a surface of lightest slate rock. If
this mineral deposit is what it now seems to
be, if will be of vast benefit to our country
and realize fabulous fortune for its discov-
erers. Any ono desiring to examine the
specimens can do so by calling at this Office.
SAD NEws.-From the Jacksonville Senti-
mel we learn that on the 9th inst, the wife
of Abraham Miller, late of this county, was
terribly mangfed, on Lost River, by the ex-
plosion of cooking stove in which can of
powder had been secreted. No surgeon
could be obtained, but she is doing better
than could have been expected under the
circumstances. There is severe fracture
of the skull, commencing above the right
eyebrow and running up the forehead; it
does net seem to have injured the brain, as
she retains her full mental faculties. Her
arms are both wounded, also two of the fin
gers of her right hand. Mr.. Miller started
a few weeks ago from Linn county for a
home in Goose Lake valley, and We presume
had not yet arrived there when this terrible
catastrophe overlook him and his family.
THosE in naod of Dru0s Medicines ar