The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-19

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nent questions.
ST. Louis is soon TO open q negro theo-
logical seminary.
Ar istic exhibitions are multiplying
Throughout France. =
= Fisk. Jr., issaid to contemplate S20,-
900 ball in San Francisco.
| A hundred women are preparing them
lsclvcs for the bar in America.
HarvarRs divinity is shaped to female
ends in the case Of one lady student.
The Emperor has condemned America
to two years Of Prince Pierre Bonsparte.
A Kansas town now comprehends its
vagrant men by means Of female con-
stable.
Sapalic county, MichigaD, boasts the
salt Of the eartlI to the extent Of three
hundred acres.
a South Carolina member has sdded
another recruit TO the negro battalion as
West Point
1t is said that the girl OF the period
never looks 50 distressed as when she
takes off her chigpon.
The Egyptian yice-royal SOD and heir
enjoys vice-royalty in Paris, living at the
rate of $3.50. 900 year.
Ex Senator WigfalI, of Texas, IL
engaged in mining in Colorado Territory
and seems to be prospering.
Another little boy eight years old, has
been rendered insane by the cruelty Of .
female school teacher in Illinois.
An cntcrprising journals. in Paris IL
publishing u newspaper in Japanese to
avoid complications with the authorities
Archduchess Sophia is about to erect.
in the superbs of Vienna, chapel to
the memory Of her ill-fated son, Maxi
miliian.
Twenty members Of the Connecti--
cut legislature have passed the average
age of man and budded into q second
childhood.
A Boston paper explains tha: it intend
ed 10 speak of 1.-The prettiest theatre" in
that city, aud not ..,he bulliest," as the
types got it.
Brigham Yonng thinks of populaiing
new territory with his Diseased BROTH
ers' widows and orphans, who have been
left to his care.
An airy fairy Lillian is lecturing St.
Louis ladies against Female suffrage
She is from Boston, and is one the hub
can boast on.
A Pennsylvania named Coward, is
bold enough to claim an estate Of ESQ.,
O00. 900 in England. That Coward 10
probably 'gold-cornered."
Further cablegrams report the loss of
life by the great FIRE at Constau,inople at
over 100, and that $50 900 900 will not
cover the destruction OF property.
Trinity allows only Eve minutes for the
orations of its commencement, and the
students think this scarcely enough for
the commencement of their oratieBs.
The wife of Prince Hohenzollern is
said to be the handsomest blonde among
the princrsses of Germany. She is the
daug ghter of ex-King Ferdinand Of Port
ugal.
| Dr. Mary Walker wants women to be
relieved of their petticoats aud whale
bones so they can catch 4 ball gracefully,
ana get Ftu VI tHei1 eAus oso'Se AZ
walking"
4 Massachusetts, man. who had never
before seen the elephant, insisted when
circus procession passed through his town
last week. that the elephant was walking
backward.
The Concord Patriot reports that one
New Hamphirc boy. of fifteen years is.
now six feet, FIVE aud half inches tall;
but it does not brag about him yet. as he
has not got his growth.
Gov. Fletcher. of Missouri, hearing
the sound of locomotive while he was
speaking at railroad celebration, said:
IT'S the sound of the tread of ages-the
noise OF the football of destiny"
Richelieu's analogy between the pen
aud the sword is acted upon oy the Sui
tan, who has conferred the rank of leu
tenant colonel upon Turkish editor for
writing culogistic leading article upon
his Serenity.
| Census takers are forbidden to divulgc
the biographical particulars which they
are privileged to extort from private life;
aud yet it has been gravely proposed to
invest women with this inquistorial pre-
rogative.
A Honolulu merchant, about to leave
the island temporarily. advertises that he
has appointed two persons to act as his
agents, and that any debts CONTACTED
without their approval and consent will
be "oonscien,iously rspudiated" By him.
A somewhat animated religious coutro.
vesy took place at Georgetown, Texas,
few nights since, at the colored church.
Fire arms were the principal arguments
used but no one seems to have been
hurt. 4 certain portion of the flock dee
sired the services of one minister and
some another. is this what is meant by
tho church militants
According to the latest estimates OF
the Agricultural Department. the
wheat crop of this country will fall
short of that of 1869 by 4S,OOO, 200
bushels. The corn crop is largely
above an average while the cotton
crop will amount to not less than
8, SOC, 900 bales, and with long sea-
son. but little short OF 4,O0O, 600
bales.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Goode.
who we're murdered in Favorite Island,
sixty miles below Memphis, three
weeks since, were found, the formersat