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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

NOBLE Women. as soon as it
became evident that the smallpox
was upon US, the Sisters of Charity
rendered their services to wait upon
the sick, and have been ready at any
moment to go wherever danger call
ed. In the case of Mr.. VIM. Neaa's
family, where the father; mother and
only child were taken down with the
disease, the Sisters at once volunteer
ed their aid, and are now rendering
this unfortunate family all the atten-
ton their condition requires. In the
case of Mr.. Sneed. the painter, who
when prostrated by the disease, and
with no one to care for him, the Sis
ters at once went to his relief, and
are rendering him all the gentle atten-
tions so soothing to the sick and
afflicted. When full of life and
health, we are too prone to forget
these ministering angels, but when
pestilence and death stalk abroad,
we realize the depth Of their self-sac-
rifcing spirit. In the pest-houses
and hospitals of the world these Sis
ters find their noblest field Of service,
and in all lands they are ever found
ready to face any danger if thereby
they may minister to the sick and dy-
ing All honor to these noble women
IYalla WalId StateSnaels.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13
SC1SSORINGs.

Stealing nutmegs IS small crime,
but may lead to a greater.
Beauty is worse than wine-it in
toxicates both holder and beholher.
Cleanliness is next to godliness,
and it is soap that is next TO charity.
A landlord complains that an eiec-
ton viii not move his tenant. Why
not try an injection.
A Georgia girl gently hit her
swain's arm, and was shot IN the knee
by his revolver.
Watched, the German tenor, was
once a hack driver, now he is on the
stage.
The question is now asked whether
man feels girlish when he makes
his maiden speech.
When a Kansas City saloonist taps
a fresh barrel of whiskey, he calls it
erecting a new elevator.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
has decided that for lawyer to call Q
witness Pennsylvania Yankee" is
tgross abuse.
At the watering places they call the
match making mammas .'herridans."
Their daughters hope to be the 'tmar-
ried-uns."
A Kansas Judge angrily dismissed
case because the complainant, a
widow of fifty, stated her age was
twenty-three.
An Irish magistrate censuring some
boys for lettering in the street:-''If
everybody were to stand in the streets
how could anybody get by?"
Z passenger ON Southern railway
train attempted To commit suicide a
few days ago because he did not have
money enough to pay favorite dogs
fare.
The gentleman who purchased the
new book, ''The Coming Races" was
disappointed In finding nothing about
trotting in it. He declares the title .
bare-saced swindle.
Horrors accumulate. A compan-
ion piece to ''Cut off my Curls with
Your Scissors, Mamma entitled
Grip my Chignon with your Jack
knife, Papa" has just come out.
Rochester is full of guilty people.
One day last week one of the city
papers made some charges against
an individual without giving his name
or residence. The Office of the paper
has been full of men since then,
asking if anything was insinuated
against them.
A Nassau gentleman said to an old
lady, who had brought up large
family of children near the river, s.T
! should think You would have lived in
constant fear tha: some of them would
have got drowned" "Oh no." re-
Isponded the old lady, "we only lost
three or four that way
A Wyoming husband adyertises
himself as nurse, his wife having
retired from the business to enter
politics. 1t is to be presumed that
| the gentleman proposes to enter into
the dry branch of the business.
The Norwich advertiser selects the
following important advice to farmers
from "WhatI j Know about Farming:"
Catch your butterflies late in August.
Select the deep yellow ones if you
would get good, sweet saleable but
ter.
/ This is possible result according
to the Nation: Before long, man
will gaze at woman with the same
emotion with which he gazes alta land
scape or field of wheat; while woman
will look on man as she looks on a
grain elevator or locomotive.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13
WOMAN LECTURERS.

A powerful illustration of the
growth of the lecture business in the
past few years is given in theaverage
annual incomes of the two more
prominent women lecturers of the day
Anna Dickinson and Olive Logan
Miss Dickinson states that her income
has averaged 1000 yeag since she
began to lecture, which was, we be-
.lieve, eleven years ago. Until Miss
Logan made her appearance as lec-
turer, Miss Dickinson stood unrival-
ed in her sphere, and it was feared by
the friends of the latter, that Miss Dick
inson's business would suffer. The
contrary has beenlthe case. Miss Dick
inson's income last season was $19,-
600 larger than ever before; Miss
Logan's income has averaged $l4, 900
year, since she began to lecture,
three years ago-exactly double Miss
Dickinson's average. These facts
speaks volumes in proof of the recent
growth of the lecture business, for
Miss Dickinson had the field almost
to herself as woman lecturer for
some eight years of her career, while
Miss Logan's triumphant success has
been the signal for the entry of more
than hundred women into the field
of effort, and many of them are sue
cessful also. Miss Logan and Miss
Dickinson still lead the procession,
so far as popularity and resultant
dollars are concerned, but there are
fully score of women lecturers, OF
more or less ability, who are success
full to the tune of So 900 to Sc, 200 a
year.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

"That is You will not marry me p
how, but very distinct--"Nop
"Then there is no hope 7"
: "T think not"
+ "But, Miss Bessie, have not known
you very long-perhaps in time you
might learn to love me-"
"Oh, no, / could notm This was
said very quickly.
"Why not p Then after a pause,
he asked, suddenly, "Do you love any
one elsc?"
She was silent for a moment, and
then she spoke, in tones that did not
falter now:
"Yes, Mr.. Stevens, / do; IL is kind
or to you, to tell the whole truth. |
have been attached for years TO one |
have, known from childhood"
then, with d little sob, she added,
''rhere, / have told you my secret ~
now you had better leave me-" bHo1
~ f"s.You are right, Miss Bessie,p he
said slowly Il viii not inhict what
must have been my unwclcome atten-
tions upon you any longer. | will
bid you good morning" He went
quickly down the aisle, and out into
the sunshine. Sam yentured to peep
out. Bessie was sitting in one Of the
pews, crying silently. Somehow, he
never exactly knew how, he got down
from the gallery aud to her side, and
almost before she heard him approach
had her in his arms.
''Bessie, Bessie, do you care for me ?
Oh my darling, | love you so dear
ly.n
There is no need TO dwell on all the
details Of the scene Suffice it To say,
that for once Sam forgot to be bash
ful, and that when the first rapturcs
were over, he and Bessie went togeth-
er to the gallery, where, sure enough.
they found among the holly leaves the
lost ring.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13
TRIBUTE To WOMEN.

The following excellent extract is
from a speech delivered by the Hon.
Pierre Soule.
when l reflect on the conduct OF
many married men In California
their faithlessness to every VOW which
they made at the altar-how complete
ly they fail in the performance of
their duties-how virtuous and in
dustrious, faithful and patient women
are imposed upon by worthless brutes
of husbands, as great tyrants at home,
as daunkards and debauchees abroad,
my respect for the sex prompts me to
do all within my power to protect
her rights and secure her happiness.
II love woman; have loved her
all my life, through boyhood, youth,
manhood, and mature wears. / ex-
pect to love her all my life, and dy-
ing, to be found faithful to the same
high inspiring sentiments. For amid
all the varied scenes, temptations,
struggles and hopes of existence, one
star brighter than all others, has
lightened and guided me onward
if ever I had any high and noble am
bition the exciting energy has been
in the approving smile coming from
the eye of woman. And I Judge her
affection is this upon others
"Gentle in her affection, yet nigh
ty through her influence, her medi-
um of rule is as powerful Us the bal
lot box, and she only needs the pro-
lection of law against those who have
no law in their habits and propensi-
ties. She has ruled me from my boy
hood with the soft and winning infu-
ence cf her virtue, not her beauty.
I remember my first love; my baby
affections at four years of age. ]
have been in love nearly every month
of my life since, save the dark and
rayless days and years which succee-
ded the desolate heart and made the
heart too desolate. And never, sir,
while [ remember my mother, long
since in her gravel remember the
night she died-never, while l recol-
lect my sisters and the abuse that
might have been theirs; never, while
/ hold in my memory one other, and
her memory is all that is left me
will l refuse to give my voice and in
huence, and vote in favor of measures
necessary to protect and cherish the
fairer and better portion of creation,
against the passion, neglectand abuse
of my sex. / hope the bill may
pass
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

THE C. IS o. RAILRoAD.-The
grading is completed to the south
side of Red Bank Greek, and the
track laid to within about three miles
of the above point. Here the heavy
work commences. From the high
bank to where the pilingsis drove for
the bridge, say distance of one hun
dred yards, an embankment one hun
dred feet wide at the base and sixteen
feet on top, and fifty feet high, will
have to be built With the exception
of those employed on this embank-
ment the entire grading force are on
the north side of this creek. The
creek will be crossed by a bridge,
nearly fifty feet high. Considerable
of an embankment is obliged to be
made on the north side of the same
creek. From there to the Bluffs will
be continued string of cuts and en-
bankments, the deepest of which will
be in Brearcliff's field, where a cut
about half mile long and averaging a
depth of about twelve feet, will have
to be made. At this place the ad-
vance graders are at work. The
whole line of the work is now very
heavy and necessarily slow. 1t will
probably be six weeks before the road
is completed to Bed Bluff. Red Bta.5
Independent, Sept. 2Ist.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

GRANTS GREAT CRIME IN NEW
ORLEASs.-Another Radical mag
nate has turned his back upon Grant
Theodore Tilton in the Golden Age,
gives the Government the following
back-handed slap in the face:
All accounts go to show that Gen
eral Grant reached his official arm in
to Louisiana and shamefully interfered
with her local politics. The admins
tration feels its weakness, and tries to
prop itself up by cash and cannon.
Governor Yarmouth doubts the ex-
pedicncy of renominating General
Grant in 1872. He questions whether
Grant can carry the reconstructed
States ii he should be renominated.
That is his crime And consequently
Collector Casey, the Presidents
brother-in-law. backed by retinue
of Federal officers and Federal troops,
practically broke up a convention
which, had it not been interfered with,
would have renominated Governor
Yarmouth by an overwhelming ma
jority But the cash and the cannon
of the administration carried the day.
1t is said that General Grant disap-
proves of the rash proceeding of his
friends. Why then did he not show
his displeasure by their immediate re-
-moval? The fact that they have been
continued in office without public rep
rimand, is proof that they were acting
the part assigned to them. If they are
removed now, it will be in consequence
of the storm of popular indignation
their conduct justly excites, and not
because their conduct is condemned al
the White House.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13
THE NOBLE REVENGE.

The coffin was plain one--a poor
misrable pine coffin. No flowers on
the top; no lining of white satin for
the pale brow; no smooth ribbons
about the coarse shroud. The brown
hair was laid decently back, but there
was no crimped cap with neat tie be-
meath the chin. The sufferer from
cruel poverty smiled in her sleep; she
had found bread, rest and health.
81 want to see mother" sobbed
poor little child, as the undertaken
screwed down the top. w
You cannot; get out OF the way,
boy why don't somebody take the
brat?"
IS 'Only let me see her one minutew
cried the helpless orphan, clutching
the side OF the charity box, and us he
gazed into the rough box agonized
tears streamed down the cheeks on
which no childish bloom ever linger-
ed. Oh, it was painful to hear him
cry the words: "Only once; let me
sec mother, only once"
Quickly aud brutally the heartless
monster struck the boy away, so that
he reeled with the blow. For mo-
ment the boy stood painting with grief
and rage-his blue eyes distended,
his lips sprang apart with fire glittering
through his eyes as he raised his little
arm, with most unchildish accent,
and screamed, "When 1 am man
I'll kill you for that!
There was a coffin and o heap of
earth between the mother and the
poor forsaken child-a monument
much stronger than granite built in
the boys heart TO the memory of the
heartless deed.
The court house was crowded TO
sufiocation.
Does any one appear as this man s
counsel?' asked the judge.
There was silence when he had
finished, with lips tightly pressed to-
gether, look of strange intelligence
blended with naughty reserve upon
his handsome features, young
man stepped forward with q firm
tread and kindly eye TO plead for the
errning and friendless. He was a
stranger. but at the first sentence
there was silence. The splendor of
his genius entranced-convinced.
The man who could not find friend
was acquitted.
May God blessyou, sir, I cannot, F."
said he.
II want no thanks" replied the
strangers.
I'LL believe you are unknown
TO me-"
MAN, / viii refresh your memory.
Twenty years ago this day, you struck
broken hearted little boy away
from his dear mothers coffin. was
that boy!"
The man turned livid.
"Haye you rescued me, then, to
take my life?"
"No. ] have a sweeter revenge
/ have saved the life of man whose
brutal deed has ranked in my breast
for the last twenty years. Go, then,
and remember the tears ofa friendless
child"
The man bowed his head in shame,
and went from the presence of mag
nanimity as grand to him as incom-
prehensible.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

WHY CALIFORNIA WENT REPUB-
LICAN.-Mrs. Fair, who is now in
prison in California, under a sentence
of death for the murder of Critten-
den, claims that the result of the cleo
tion IN that State is a popular verdict
in her favor. She claims that sympa-
thy with her has caused the defeat of
Haight, who refused to pardon her
Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
have been stumping the State in her
behalf, and she assumes that they have
secured the victory. There is certain
ly logic on her side. If there is any
thing that Radicalism sympathizes
with, it is crime, but how the party
that hung Mrs. Surratt is to sympa-
thize with Mrs. Fair we do not see
unless it is upon the ground that Mrs
Surratt was innocent, and that Mrs
Fair is guilty of the crime of murder
If the position of Mrs. Fair is correct
of course her pardon by Booth is Ger.
tain, and she may come to the surface
formidable candidate for the vice.
presidency on the Grant ticket.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

The National Educational Associa-
ton of ST. Louis were of the opinion
that an indispensable qualification for
q good primary teacher was the abili-
ty to subsist upon avery small salary.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

A military expedition is fitting out
at st. Paul, Minnesota, to escort the
engineers of the Northern Pacific
railroad while they are making the
final location of the lines through
western Dakota and eastern Montana
and to repress any hostile demon
strations OF the Sioux in Yellow
Stone valley.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

An African giant eight feet high is
on his way to America.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13

RATES OF ADVERTISING PER YEAR
One Column, 500; Half Column, $50; Quar-
ter Column, SIS.
Transient Advertisements per Square Of ten
lines or less of this sized type, first insertion,
So each subsequent insertion, 81.
square is one inch in space down the col
umr, counting cuts, display lines, blanks, &C.,
solid matter. No advertisement to be considered
less than square, and all fractions counted
full square. All advertisements inserted for
less period than three months to be regarded
ransient.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-13
VERTIS EMENTS.

AND. IMPROVED OR UNIMPROVED,
Ia is cheaper in the Forks of the Santian
,uAn in any ether part Of the State.
ray Inquire OF J. N. JONAS, Marion Station.
or of DANIEL GABr. Scio. Linn county.
v6n33tf.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28

You have produced scarcity OF foreign or Ign salt
pose we have over Importation Of that artiolei And
how ean We produce scarcity bt sfcsp hs ny Sa1sncs
to that l2oc 900 = &c annvy l% Ss
SS Z. g IL Az: sS,sPns $ .s :; own '0"''a'''
Sn s'm sss fSI az hSs ws Ia scarcity
of1mssican salt I}sappiesns ii SWAY way
The domestic salt producing nteres Pray heT
Sat II this were true where IL the sehse Of your acc
DO we ns Of Of sa
II this ia not your tell us what II can De- te
you Of facts as OF logic ana ssnsG interest IL
healthy and n I f srs yo a.
Il 40 Sos 1osE nsF or halt Of
;s,ey tr .yDisos S Sat Hou fGs sps
70 wsste words upon you. We sye soday i SnS
bushels q %os sa Viii rS;9s 70 q
YOU sa we nave socpped production you w ns in
ts ts u;tea e pos ses Salt IS S sSnasn Our do
nestle works can produce millions ca OF i ante Of te ex
stius tariff, 100000 bushels Of foreign Salt annually
Of q s se s"nSr
OF ours was Sat except during the recent wal
AID then only In consequence or tne Dio 4aue H e
sippi River We might further assure you that or All me
articles Of our internal oonmerc sat Is reissvey ,r sne
favor for this very chcapncss seems 70 no wnau you
complain Of You ndicf us upon fhe aicgatlo tnat we
make foreign Salt tOnly 1aO00VO OF bushels an
nuay) by undersellng, and yOn accuse us OF Similar
Ofense in reference to domestic Salt, ana YET WIN
strange and udicrous ncOnsstency You say that inc
people are entitled buy their bt OF whom they Kc
ut what markets they please, and for the best prce lacy
can" Does it not that IL the people nave thls
right to buy we asO like other prodnctrs must nave
right SELL and not to be denounced Tor senng
cheapl . -
without attempting to make anything plain to your
comprehension conclude with rcmtniscence OF your
past relations to More than gear ago yOu began
tO publish your absurd fables concerning u.s. We TOOK
no notice OF them until found It necessary We then
sent you communication, which in friendly ana
courteous language corrected some OF the strange ana
curious errors into which we supposed you had uncOn.
srioisy fallen. You had NOT the nanlness and honesty
to publish that communication until after waiting many
weeks you had prepared to publish with IT, and you DID
publish with IT, another attack fabulous in fact
and abaurd in logic and than any which had gone
before We thereupOn promptly to our second
letter. which again attempted to set you right We
did to any OF the coarse and ruder forms or
expression but think our exposition was reasonably
plain and certainly language was somewhat explicit
and direct. You have had the courage TO publish
that letter although you received IL many months ago
tins morality Is it the special function OF me
WOrd To isreprrs mt and never 10 allow the cOrrcc-
tiOn We tell yOu finally that you have no further claim
to courtesy at hands, and that unless can learn TO
hold your slandcrOus tongue shall hereafter expose
you to public and contempt persons OF low un
terStauding, unnanly Instincts, and only slightly al
di, ted TO the truth. Respectfully yours,
THE SALT CO. OF OHOSDAGA.
Attest, J. ". Barker. Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
Dean Stanley, in an address to the students

Dean Stanley, in an address to the students
OF the British and Foreign School SocietyS Training Col
lege at sockwell suburb Of London, te 7th inst,
said the greatest of all educational difficulties, and also
the solution OF all educational difficulties. to be
found in connection with the characters land capacities
Of those who sent teachers The solution OF
all difficulties whether religious otherwise. was to
mud teachers who were really capable of graphing with
the most serious and important subject wch from any
possible point OF view put before those who under
took to educate the young OF England or any other coun
try He wished to Impress upon those who haf TO out
t0 commence the work Of teaching that depended
rcir cxertOisOn the unit Of heart and soul which
they could throw into their work. and ON tue amount Of
energy aud the power OF imprting energy which they
could bring tO bearwhether he cduca ion Of the chill
drtM in thcir hands should be complete SUCCESS q
tOtl failure. The solution Of Is itish educational dim
cuties depended DO much upon the Questions talked
about the character Oi the ei.hcrs that this
and other liar Institutions able "a turn ont The
d"cprst impressions cal ried from childhood into man-
mood were impressions not Only of what had been
liush but o; tho iJanue Ia which the instruction had
Lccn given. Thi- iT he cAeMp!ilcd from his expert
tHCe 0fDr ArnOld's teaching
New-York tribune., 1871-12-28
JACOB BARKER.

Jacob Barker once leading merchant of this
city and q cotempOrary In business OF tho GriswOs.
Mumfords schieaclns Ogdons and other old New York
firms, died Tuesday in Philadelphia. He was born
at Swan Island Kcnncbec County. Me-, Dec. H.
I77o His parents Quakers. At the age OF
1s, being thrown upon his own resources. he came
to New York. and entered the cOuntnglOuse OF Samuel
Hicks Son, No IA Cranewharf tSouth-stJ. who were
commission merchan He speculative and indus
trous and before he had attained the OF a. he was
of four ships and brig and had good business
standing. He married Ang. q, 1901 Elizabeth. daughter
of Thomas Hazard Of this city He evinccd at the we'd
ding dinner his self-reancc by treating with ndifer
the which he then received OF heavy losses
through the failure Of q merchant to meet his
WAS not deceived he soon reeained his credit, and
when the war with Great Britain broke ont he onred to
raise loan OF S5COoOO for the NATIONAL Government
He founded The Union newspaper to advocate the elcc-
ton of DE Witt Clinton to the office Of Governor tns
state. In 1915. he founded the Exchange Bank. III
meu This and the extensive business no trans
acted beside gave him commanding position In Imam
cia affairs The Bank broke In 1919, but Mr.. Barker
continued hs business on large SCALE deriving advan
taces from his influence with banks in the Interior
He provoked to send challenge 10 one DaVlu I
Rogers and found guilty of tho OfcDse, although ne
defended himself with great ingenuity ana suptety or
argument. The sentence Of dtranchisement when nc
received Cancelled by Gov Clinton His legal kno"l
edge was again called into when, on The failure or
heiIiie and Fire Insurance Co.. he. with Others was IN
dicted for conspiracy to defraud , After long
In 1884 he removed from this city TO New c
Orleans where he studied for and was admitted 10 te
h3r He also attained Prominence In hnance, ana Was
entered the Crescent CITY he was elected TO the Chca
states III Louisiana at the close OF the war; but
owing the unreconstruced condition OF his state ms
credentials not recognized by Congress since the
lie led quiet and retired ife During the iaHtt TWO
wears he stopped at the residence of his son. SpruceS