The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-07-22
NEWS ITEMS.

Boston has not work enough tor Its
working men.
/ A Masonic male and female college is
to be erected in Bolton, Texas.
Catching flies in church on Sunday is
strictly forbidden at Lima, o.
/ 4 he New York Sun nominates Gen.
N. T. Banks for the next presidency.
i A PhiIadelphia woman has elcvon
hundred flower pots surrounding her
home.
There is talk in Minnesota of regiment
Of cavalry to be raised there for the Indi-
an war.
Sambo, did you ever see the Catskill
Mountains ?" ''No, sab; but " seen
um kill mice"
"Christadelphians" is the title of the
latest new sect. The members live at
Jefferson, Ind.
The course Of study in the public
schools Of Nashville is to be reduced from
aleven to ten years.
A female society in Iowa proposes to
intimidate men to discontinue the habit
Of waxing mustaches.
A converted jig dancer" il lecturing
in Vermont on the evils Of kicking feet
as high as mans head.
Each policeman of New Haven has
been presented with two dollar Bible
by kind hearted old lady.
The Society for Suspension of Crnelty
to Animals, in Paris, is out against try
ing small fish and eels'alIye.
Greeley is growing rapidly. ItisaNe-
vada town which promises to be one OF
the most prosperous in the State.
Major Powell, the Colorado explorer,
asks Congress for subsidy" for the pur-
pose Of making further explorations.
A man in Portland wanted to gain ad
mission to a panorama at half price on
the ground that he had but one eye.
The students of the Agricultural Col
lege at Lexington, KY, have received
from the Secretary of War new military
outfit.
An autograph letter. from George
Washington, on what he knew abou.
farming, was sold in London, recently,
for SITS.
"Well, what is it that causes the salt
ness of the ocean ?" inquired teacher Of
bright little boy. "Coddsh," was the
quick reply.
/ A Paradox" Nothing is certain" is
common aphorism; but if nothing is
certain, how can it be certain that moth
ing is certain
/ Generals Porter, Hancock and Dent,
of the Presidents staff, will be obliged to
resign if the Senate Army bill is adopted
by the House.
Baron Steuben, who was distinguished
volunteer officer in the revolutionary war,
is to have monument erected to his MEN,
ory in Washington.
Seaator Hiram Revels has sister in
New York poor house, to whom he not
long since generously donated fifty cents!
How's that for hi!
A New Jersey farmer, advertising his
estate, commends it to purchasers on ac-
count of the excellent champagne made
from turnip crop"
i First Newsboy-Jim, lend us three
cents. will yery Second Newsboy-Now
look here. what do you take me for;
Fisk or Vanderbilt?
Timothy Foley, Fenian, killed John
Hammond, Englishman, at Kendalville.
last week, and thanked God that he had
killed one Englishman.
| The believers in the Gospel of Gin and
Milk propose to erect church for the
Rev. Mr.. Smythe, to be called "fhe
Church of the Holy Juniper"
i Mrs. Van Cott, the Methodist revival
list, recently converted forty-six souls in
seventeen days, and received s53 for it;
which is about SO Is per suol.
Among the attractions announced for
Ia fetc, given last week by the ladies of
the Emmanuel Church, New Orleans,
were !" the coolest champagne punches"
u An Arkansas temperance society has
Idissolved. It allowed ale as beverage,
but the members found it bunglesome
to their stomachs" and fell back on whis-
key.
VI A lady advcrtises for sale In country
newspaper, one baLboon, three ,abby
cats, aud parrot. She states that hav-
J ling married she has no further use for
them.
Two Boston papers are accusing each
other of stealing parts of one another's
obituaries of Charles Dickens. 1t ap-
pears that they both copied from tho
same book.
i The Petersburg Courier asks the wo-
men of Virginia # it is possible that they
lean wish to advocate the extension of
1.-The suffrage to themselves, and to descend
to equality with their meny
j A new argument for the woman suffra-
leists is furnished by New Orleans po-
llceman, who has been in the habit Of
dressing up his wife in his uniform and
letting her do duty while he imbibed.
It is estimated that there are about 40,-
600 homeless, friendless vagrant children
lin New York, who, if not cared for, viii
help swell the list of thieves, murderers
and desperadoes, that throng "the great
city"
! The Scandinavian population OF Minne-
sofa numbers about &C, 1000. or one eighth
of the entire population Of the state. OF
this aggregate Of 60 900, Norway supplies
lao, 600, Sweden $4,000 and Denmark
$4,000.
i The Chicago and st. Louis Railroad
company are setting out miles upon miles