The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-05-19

~zTHESARRATzx SCHOOL EXCURSION.
We intended to write up an account
of the Portland excursion, which came
Off last Saturday, but It was too big .
thing, even for our enlarged paper
Going down, the programme consisted
of five passenger aid two baggage cars,
rammed, jammed and he-crowded with
beautiful and otherwise wotnen Gov.
cred with fiounccs and f1rbclows,
brave and unbrave men, quiet and mol.
sy boys and girls, cherubs of babies
bodaubed with 'lasses candy and be-
smeared with sugar-plums; lunch bas.
kets filled with cold rooster, sand
wiches, jelly, pickles and jam-princi.
pally .jana-all huddled in heterogc.
nious mess; with driEzling, mizzline
rain beating Hcont insioas ard monoto-
nous accompaniment upon the car.
roofs, and reminding ms that the rain
falls alike upon the Sunday school ex.
cursionist and upon the sgoose-racer.- =
Arriving at Portland, the good little
boys and girls, who never tell lie and
who invariably die young, marched
demurely to the church and drank In
/ ecstasy the kind words Of sweet COM
mendation which fell from the lips OF
DR.. Vincent, or listened in rapturous
silence TO the heavenly harmony which
flowed from the honeyed mouth Of the
''Sweet Singer" Phillip Phillips -
while the bad boys who only Joined the
Sunday Schools the day before the pic
mic, and who .wonstss there zagain till
the eve of the next one, went to the
'.doilar store,n wandered inquisltively
through the streets, peered into the
cockpit, glanced ionginglS into the
inviting windows of Green's Zooiogi-
cal and archaeological saloon, and made
faces ut Chinainen and niger boot
blacks. s.s.s e4-
Coming home: fewer cars, tighter
jam, worse bedaubed and besmeared
cherubs, more rampled ruffies, and less
cold rooster, pickles and peanuts. q
| Too much credit cannot be awarded
the railroad employees for their admi-
rable tact incrowding DO many people in
to so small n space, and too much praise
cannot be given to the people for the
philosophy and patience with which
they accepted the situation.
!. Altogether, the excursion passed of
as we'll. If not hetter, than most of such
extensive affairs do, and We believe
that the children-for whom the occa-
sion was specially inaugdrated-were
well pleased with their days entertain
ment, and would willingly ACCEPT OF
another opportunity to cxcursh to the
metropolis. ,.
MARROW EscArE FROM DROWNING.
We are informed that a few days
ago, as Perry Fariow and his wife and
child were crdssing Thomas Creek,
near Scio, in q wagon, the team miss
ed the ford and was swept into swim
ming water, when the wagon was in
stantly eapsized and all Of its precious
freight precipitated into the swift cur
rent. Mr.. Farlow, on coming to the
water's surface, saw with agony that
his wife and child were fast floating
down stream, the mother at firet clas2-
ing the babe closely to her breast. and
then, unconsciously loosing her clasp,
letting it float away from her. Mr.. F.,
being good swimmer, with few bold
strokes, to which his paternal solici-
tude doubtless lent double power,
reached the babe-which had Rlready
sunk somefour feet below the waters
surface-and holding it aloft, ,she almost
Immediately landed 1t upon . little
isle hard by, and started in pursuit OF
his wife, who had foated about hum
drcd yards lower down, where the wa
..er was sufficiently SHALLOW for her to
tom -h bottom, and where she was maxi
ing fra .,tic efforts to stand until her
brave bus. hand could come to her as
sistanee.z Bu.t the swift current gained
cd the mastery a nd was still sweeping
her on when the st. ing arm OF her no
bic protector encircled her fast fainting
form, and a few vigorous 0roSes saie'y
landed her on the shore. a"Sh' cu'
the most remarkable self-po session
and strong resolution upon the pa oi
Mr.. F. could have saved his wife a. q
babe from watery grave A trunk
with valuable contents also hoated
some distance further down the stream,
but vas subsequently recovered viii
but little damage. The horses and
Wagon were aiso recovered.
Miss LYD. A. MELEER died, at the res
fdcnce of Mr.. Culver, in this city, last Fri
day yeyening, aged years II months and
6 days. She had been for many months
sinking under the slow but certain raw
ages of that insidious destroyer OF hu-
man life, consumption, and was we'll
prepared to surrender herself into the
tender keeping Of Him WHO has said,
"Blessed are the pure in heart for they
shall see God" Deceased has been
known. in Albany almost from her
childhood, and there are but few of our
citizens who have not some act Of dis
interested kindness to credit to her ac-
count, or gentle sand tender word to
cherish as having fallen from her now
silent lips. The frail casket which her
pure spirit had exchanged for q bright
er and hoiier sphere, was deposited in
the family graveyard, In Syracuse Pre-
cinct, beside the silent sepuichres OF
many of her kindred who had gone
before. May the sod rest lightly on
her grave, and the gentle breezes waft