The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-26
STATE NEWS.

Gov. Grover arrived home last Wednes.
day. 81
Washington county has population
Of 4 200.
Next Monday week the Supreme
Court meets.
q. d. Bones was drowned at Portland
last Monday. M
Track-laying is progressing on the
railroad near Dutchtown.
Tho Methodists of Salem will build q.
church costing $780, 900.
A son of Rev. Rowland, of Dalles, was
drowned last week near that city.
A party Of two ladies aud four gentle.
men assembled Mount Hood last week.
Judge Boise gave all the Republican
contestants the Offices in Yamhill county.
The Polk county Republican favors
Hon. J. w. Nesmith for U. s. Senator.
Wilson, the highwayman, was seutenced
by Judge Upton to 8 years in the Peni-
tentiary.
A little girl IL years old was rescued
from house Of prostitution in Portland
Inst week M
Gas will be in working order in Salem
by the meeting Of the Legislature, on the
18th inst.
Tho Clackamas' is the name of the
new locomotive brought up from San
Francisco last week
i The bark Lovied," from Wales,
with 600 tons Of railroad iron, arrived ct
Portland last Sunday.
A spiritual Grove Meeting will be held
in Butteville, Oregon, on the 9th, 10th
and 11th Of September.
The cxcursionists had n Sabbath
School and campmeeting at Salmon Riv-
er beach last Sunday week.
$4,000 was the amount ia Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S treasure box which was
robbed last week near Umaiilla.
The Washington Guards Of Portland,
as also some of the Fire Companies of
that city, will be at the State Fair.
Mary, wife of Gen. Joseph Lane, died
at Roseburg on the night of the 18th
inst. She was about 20 years of age.
The population of Umatilla county
is 2.S72; number of voters, S72; mum
Der Of families GIT; number of houses,
10.
On the 18th the stage between Una
tilla and La Grande was robbed of Wells,
Fargo l. Co.'S treasure box which con-
tanned largo sum of money.
A family in a small boat were washed
over the Columbia bar at Astoria last
week, but after many hazardous man.
euvers they succeeded in landing safely
on Clatsop Beach.
w. X. Smith has been convicted in
the U. s. Dis,ric, Court of perjury, and
Judge Deadly sentenced him to one days
Imprisonment in the Multnomah Jail and
to pay fine of $1,000.
The steamer Oriflamme," which ar
rived in Portland last Tuesday. brought
270 passengers, most of whom were i'm.
migrants. Gov. Grover was among her
passengers, Us also Gov. Solomon Of
Washington Territory.
On last Sunday, at Jacksonville, two
little daughters Of Charles B. Paul, who
has just arrived from Minnesota, were
struggling for the possession Of snall
pistol. when it exploded, and the young
est, aged about 9 years, was shot through
the breast, and expired in few minutes.
The Corvallis Mercu.y tells Of remark
able child born last week near that city.
Its abdomen is apparently mass Of fun
gus flesh, while the penis, testicles
and scrotum, OF unprecedented dimcn-
sions, and very unsatisfactory defined,
are of like character Of growth. The
child still lives.
The Scio Ne,cs has again made its
welcome appearance, after suspension
OF several weeks. We get from it the
following items: The City Council of
Scio has ordered banisters to be built on
the town bridge = Mr.. J. j. Will
liams, living near Scio, while oiIing some
Of the machinery Of thrasher was
caught by the revolving machinery, and
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his arm frightfuiiy mangled. Fortunate
ly no bones were broken, and the wound
may probably heal and save amputation.
Mr. Rus. Logan had one of his
eyes hurt by scale from hammer.
LIMERICK THoMAs, an old South
Carolina negro, explains, in the
Union Springs Times, why he doesn't t
join the republican party. Among
other reasons, he says the white South
Carolinians who have joined it are the
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