The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-07-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Friday, July FL.
FOREIGN.

Thurlow Weed sick in London.
Ten people were killed and thirty
wounded by railway collision in
England.
The Liberals are victorious and the
Monarci,ists defeated in the French
elections.
In n battle in Cuba yesterday 100
insurgents were slain and the rest dis
persed.
DOMESTIC.
A great storm at Memphis yester-
day uprooted trees, destroyed crops
and blew over a railroad train, killing
the engineer and wounding II pass
engers.
The Democratic State Convention
of Maryland nominated ticket yes
terday, but refused to adopt plat
form, leaving the State Central Com
mittee to issue an address hereafter,
embodying their platform.
The 0rangemen all over the coun-
try endorse Gov. Hofiman's action in
respect to the New York riot, and
the Catholics as unanimously de-
nounce him.
Saturday. July 22.
FOREIGN.
Orleans Princes viii not be per
mitted to take their seat in the French
Assembly.
The Spanish Kings will form new
cabinet.
Gladstone was the the champion of
the abolition of the commission-pur-
chuse system, and the English people
are congratulating him upon his sue
cess, while the aristocraey condemn
/ him III unmeasurcd terms.
Cholera ravaging Persia
| DOMESTIC.
Republicans of North Carolina are
organizing.
Over loo lives were lost by storm
on the eastern Atlantic coast yester-
day.
Sunday. july 90.
FOREIGN.
Prussians are evacuating French
forts.
There was destructive fire yester-
day in Lisbon. Several persons per
ished in the flames.
Persigmy has been arrested in
Paris and will be put to death.
| DOMESTIC.
There was slight earthquake in
New York yesterday.
A meeting of $4,000 Catholics was
held in New York to express their
indignation against Gov. Hoffman.
Leading Radicals have gone to
Long Branch to consult with Grant
on the political situation.
A powder-magazine explosion was
followed by great fire in Washing
ton City yesterday, which destroyed
SI,000,000 worth of government prop
erty.
The Memphis Arelanche of the 22d
inst. contains the following card:
"MEMpHIs, July 21, 1871.
Before and since my arrival in
Memphis this day, my attention has
been called to slanderous articles in
certain Radical newspapers which
attack my character, in connection
with that of lady, who, it is falsely
stated, was travelling under my
charge. 1t is deemed due to myself
as well as to my personal friends, to
state unequivocally, and without de-
lay, that the story, in whole and in ali
its essential parts, is Enthusiastically the
instigation of malice and is hereby
pronounced utterly false.
/ (Signed), JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Col. Henry Barnes, detriot edi
tor and a Pension Agent, suicided
with a pistol yesterday. If other
prominent Radicals would get dis
gusted with themselves and do tha;
same the country would be greatly
relived.
Monday. July "a.
FOREIGN.
Several communists have been con
victed and sentenced to various terms
of imprisonment.
The French Assembly will declare
in favor of the independence of the
Pope.
DOMESTIC.
Radical State Convention of Mass
achusetts to be held on the Oath o
September.
| Kiowa Indians are endeavoring tt
induce the Sioux and Cheynnes tt
, join them in war against the whites
Tuesday, July "a.
: FOREIGN.
It is proposed that the Island o
, Corsica be rendered to the Pope as .
residence, by which means it claims
that the supremacy of France as de
fender of the Catholic faith will b,
, maintained.