The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-11-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned From the Telegraph.
Friday. Noy. 9.

Grant will declare martial law III
all the Southern States.
Rio Janeiro has passed a law freeing
all children born of slaves after this
date, and all slaves of the Govern
ment, and establishes an emancipation
fund for the benefit Of existing slaves.
1t has been developed that . Repnb-
lican member Of the late New York
Legislature received $4,000 for vot-
ing for four theiying bills.
The n. Y. Lawyers Association
will supply the legal fraternity OF Chi
cago with full set oil books.
Saturday. Nov, 4.
Minister Wa9hburnc has been pre-
scnted with service Of silver by
American citizens in Paris.
JAS. ii. Roosevelt has built public
hospital in New York, at his own cx-
pense, costing s1,000,G00.
New York snobs are afraid Prince
Alexis, OF Russia. won't come.
A mass meeting Of the Democratic
conservative party VAS held last night
III Baltimore, Md, to protest against
proceedings iii South Carolina under
suspension OF the writ Of habeas cor
pns. Clubs Of the several wards pa
radcd. Reyerdy Johnson presided
Resolutions were adopted, and speech
es were made by Johnson, the Mayor
and others.
Three hundred MormOns have just
arrived at Utah from Europe.
Sunday Nov. S.
The Italian Government will fortify
tie Alpine passes, at q cost Of 7,00O,-
900 francs.
The disarmament Of the National
Guard has BEGUN in France.
1000 extra Policemen Will superin-
tend the New York City election ON
Tuesday.
Gen. Sherman sails for Europe next
week, accompanied by the Presidents
son, Lieut. Grant.
Judge J. Wright, OF Indiana, has
stolen 100000 Of the Government
Indian fund, Next!
Two young ladies of Connecticut
yesterday lcapcd into the deepest
channel of the Lewiston (SIainc)
Falls, with their arms in;erlockcd, and
were drowned. They were stripped
naked, and evidently intended to die
The total registration Of Chicago il
only 1900 less than half OF what il
was last year.
Over 5000 wooden buildings are in
course OF erection in Chicago.
Il. +. Randolph, charged with mur-
dcring his wife, attempted suicide in
the Cincinnati jail last evening, and
then confessed 10 having murdered
his wife by strangling her.
=. Waterman. member Of the Rhode
Island Legislature. successfully sui
cidcd by shooting himself through
the head yesterday.
Louis Schwallcr WIS torn TO pieces
by = belt in Ncward factory yester-
day.
Monday. November g.
\ locomotive boiler exploded at
Portsmouth. y. H.. yesterday. One
man WIS blown fifty feet into the air
and fell 200 yards away, mangled
corpse another man had the top Of
his head blown oil, and two Others
were hurt badly.
\ young lady was murdered near
Cincinnati yesterday, and her lover
has hecn arrested on suspicion of be-
Ing the murderer.
Fred. Douglas is a candidate for the
y. Y. Legislature.
There are Ii deaths daily in Phila-
dclphia from smallpox.
The Internal Revenue receipts for
the fiscal year amount to SIS S,J00.730.
\ plot against the Spanish Govern
mcnt has been discovered in Paris.
Tuesday. November 2.
| Business is suspended entirely in
Chicago to-day on account of the
+ election.
/ Queen Victoria has postponed the
meeting OF farliamcnt till December
u.
The Communist Qucnsel has been
convicted of firing buildings in Paris
and been sentenced to death.
Belgium has forwarded $4,000 to
/ Wisconsin sufferers.
Gov. Hoffman recommends the
next New York Legislature to abol-
ish imprisonment for debt.
\ Justice Of the Peace shot a
schoolmaster dead near Wilmington
Del, yesterday.
Paper mill at Brooksyille, Indiana,
burned yesterday. Loss $4,000.
At Louisville, Ky, last Sunday
night, a falling column in the negro
church created a panic and the whole
crowd jammed and crushed into two
narrow stairs on each side of the door
the men trampiing over women and
children in their fright. Eleven were
killed outright, two of them children.
A number are more or less wounded
One had a leg broken. The scene was
terrible and heart-rending. Mothers
were screaming over their dead chill
dren and husbands in agony over
wives.
1t is positively asserted that Secre
tary Fish has resi- gned. His move
ments are so uncertain that Eel would
be more appropriate name.
Wednesday, November 8.
At Radical meeting in Montgom.
cry, Alabama, last night, an anvil ex.
ploded, killing two men and wound
ing several others.
Both branches of the Georgia Leg
islature yesterday adopted resolu
tion declaring that r. B. Bullock, late
Governor of the State, who resigned
his Office and left the State under cir,
cumstances creating grave suspicion
is guilty OF high crimes and misde
meanOrs.