The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-29

were stopped before she was hurt,
and she clasped her paltroon husband
to her bosom and wept for JOY at his
safety.
A Polk county man enjoyed a nice
ride in his wagon bed last week, as
it foated down stream while he was
attempting to ford creek.
Portland is to have 'Stranger's
House" where the poor and unfortu-
nate can get care and attention with
out money and without price"
Tbos. Harris, of Sacramento, was
accidentally strangled to death last
week. by q rope being cnrelessly fas-
tened on his neck by the Sheriff.
Last Friday San Francisco had the
hardest rain storm ever known. The
wind blew down fences, sheds ard
trees and injured many residences.
Mrs. Duniway has completed her
tale Of "Judith Reid" but threatens
to infict her readers with "Ellen
Dowd, the farmers wife," in short
time.
A woman was candidate for five
Offices in the California Legislature,
but the men didn't zee it, and she
retired from the field in supreme
disgust.
The editor of the Corvallis Demo-
crat has been presented with box Of
yeast powders by merchant, and
will now doubtless be able to make O
"raise"
A drunken man fell off the Port
land wharf into the river, but was
fshed out and placed on sober ba-
sis before he had passed in his
checks.
According to the most ralinble data
TO be obtained, the entire Indian pop
: ulation within the jurisdiction of the
United States Gnlcuding Alaska) is
; 321, 600.
The Gn,etie says venison saddles
, sell for 81. so in Corvallis. Carter
ought 10 send one Of these saddles to
Grant and get in return q Cabinet ap-
poiDtment.
Fred. Miller. of San francisco.
shot whole family and then tried to
cheat the hangman by taking poison
but the thing would mt work, aud be
viii shortly be the chief guest at q
neck-tie party.
The report of heavy snow at the
Dalles last week proves untrue, as il
was only three inches deep there last
) Friday. It was considerably deeper
towards Canyon City.
] Mrs. II. f. Hoxter, of Forest
a Grove, is terribly enraged bee use
somebody Published her name among
the list of Woman Suffragists of that
4 place. We don't blame her.
Seven Indians we're drowned by q
: canoe upsetting in the Yamhill rive,
I last Monday. Gen. Palmer was spilled
out at the same time, and when res
g cucd from the water was almost dead
: Some playful shootists accidentally
sent bullet in through the window
n of the Dallas RPubiican Office, and
q the editor commenced writing ar
apology for anything offensive which
t he migat have said about anybody al
$ any previous time. He found oui
that the shot was accidental-and
4 then cussed.
4 The largest barn in Oregon, be-
longing to Rev. Clinton Kelly, nea,
4 East Portland, burned last Monday
r 1t contained about l 500 bushels po.
tatoes, 5000 bushels of apples, sew.
t eral hundred bushels pears and othel
t fruits, over 200 tons of hay and con.
siderable quantities of feed and othe,
: valuable things. Loss, $12, 600
: A man named Foltz, of Salem, has
written letter back to Iowa in which
he libels the women of Oregon By
D asserting that "there are plenty oi
women in this State, but very few 10.
q dies" We apprehended such a mis-
Q crcant and liar as this man Foltz is
wholly incapable OF judging what il
q takes to constitute lady-or gentle.
9 man, either.
A young fellow of Washington
e county narrowed horse and buggy
: from neighbor to take his lady love
to Portland, aud now livery stable
man ia Portland who bought the
> horse and buggy from the young man
is out aud injured-for the Washing
!. ton county man has claimed his own
!, and the Young man is ''gone where
q the wocdbine twineth." Moral
= don't lerd buggies to the young mel
, to ride their lady loves in.