The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-09-30

laThe Democrat.
FRIDAY-.....-.......... ......... sEpTEMBERS 80, 1870
E. SoUR RarLRaAD Trkx.-Wo accepted sea
in-Charley Rogers vehicle last Tuesday
and made short visit to Jefferson and tn
scene Of the railroad work. The grading i
completed to Jefferson, and about two hun
drcd men were at work just back Of th'
town in clearing up the depot ground ane
making switch tracks for depot purposes
sThe pier, abutments and false work for the
San,iam bridge are all completed, and ev
ery.hing is ready for the putting in of tbs
bridge spans, which we learn are in process
: of construction at East Portland. The
steam pile driver is at work on this side oi
the river, and had completed about one
shandred yards of piling up to Tuesda,
evening. There are over a half mile oi
piles to be driven at that point, extending
= .frua,, the river to the grade soath Of the
Lebanon road, and it is expected that it will
i. take three weeks yet to complete that work.
These piles will average, for the onsire dis
sance to be piled, about Is feet high, and
eeqre being put in very carefully and selidly
= by the operators.
Gradingis progressing at rapid rate
about mile this side of Jefferson, and
about half mile of high grade has al
ready been completed. There are about
200 graders ut. work at this point, with a
large number of wagons, carts aud scrapers,
and the scene which they present is truly
lively and inspiring to our railroad hank
ering" spirits.
LArER--Yesterday Thursday large
number Of graders passed through this city
ca. route for the ''100 mile stake" to begin
operations on the grade aud work nurth to
meet the road builders coming south. This
e puts workmen on each side of our city, and
is another assurance that Holladay ''means
business" in his assertion that he will have
the sne hundred miles Of the railroad COM
that the iron horse will siake his thirst at
an Albany water tank by the time Christmas
comes dancing into existence.
wusrrs Ur:-The hrst nsmber of the daily
D:s,ocrat came to haad in due time tho remain :
ing numbers for the week. in csmpany with the
weekly of Friday. all fell .-cochunck' into the
Yeresrs box Sunday morning. How.s that !:
. -Satem Mercury.
Bro. Upton, there's something rutten in
Denmark! :. We mailed our dailies regular
ly every morning last week to the Portland
and Salem papers; and We now learn that
they never left the Albany post Office until
our weekly was issued on Friday. And.
what is more aggravating, we print our pa
per every Thursday that il will reach
most of the subscribers in the valley on pub.
licatiou day (where there are daily maiis),
but we find that the Albany Register, whic
Is issued day later, reaches its destination
from one to three days earlier than the
DExocRAr. Now this grievoas wrong upon
as and our subscribers has been repeated
until furlearance has ceased to bc "a virtue
and we are inclined to raise wl,iriwind
about somebody's ears. We are 10th to
believe that the fault lies with our own
past Office, and we would fain charge the
blame upon some mure remote official, but
the thing looks like there was something
post master, who has been absent from his
post of duty for several weeks past in con-
sequence of i'll health, we have ever found
prpmpr, ohliging and attentive to business,
and we are satisfied that he would not cuun-
senaace tolerate tarclessncss or culpable
neglect in the post office, and it may be that
there has been none in his Office, but the
fault rests some,ehere, and we respectfully
ask that the wrong be corrected as soon as
possible. 1t is wrong To our patrons and
an injury to our business when our rapers
are delayed beyond the necessary time re.
quired in their transmission to their dcsti-
nation, aud we ask that we have an equal
show with ether papers in the State in the
aastter of transmission through the mails
MERIr1RtoUs MExrIoN.-The daughters
Of Mr.. S. NJ. Pennington, of this county,
topk so in premiums at the County Fair
for articles of industry and beauty made by
their own hands. Ii the thousands of 6ther1
families in Linn county would have done
correspondingly as we'll. the Pavilion would
not have presented SO meagre an appearances
last week. Almost every family could bring
az least one article Of interest or merit to
our Fair each year, and if this were done
the Pavilion would contain three Mousand
curiosities instead of the few hundreds
Which the last Fair presented. Let the
young ladies of Old Linn go to work now,
and in the leisure moments and long
evenings of the coming winter they can
prepare many useful and beautiful things
for our next County Exposition, and make a
showing on that occasion which will rival
: any State Fair ever held in Oregon. They
hare the talent and the resources--all they
want is the energy and confidence to bring
them into requisition. : s 1s8g.
THE summer is past, and the harvest isl
ended" aTd large number of our suhscri.
bers are yet in arrears for their paper
Would they regard it as impertinent if wei
would again suggest to their memory the
fact that we are entitled to pay for our work
and would regard If as a very particular ia.