The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-07-21
PACIFIC COASTERS.


Jacksonville has 13 drinking shops.
Big earthquake in Australia, June
9th.
West Side railroad is fast progress
ing.
Harvest hands in demand in YAM
hill.
Gov. Grover is visiting on Puget
Sound.
Railroad pressing forward to the
Umpqua.
Two new daily papers are talked of
in Portland.
There are loo, 900 goats on Quad
aloupe Island.
Gamblers infest Eagene to fleece
the railroad hands.
A head of Timothy in Polk county
measures foot in length.
Farmers Of Southern Oregon are
in the midst OF harvesting.
There were 81 relatives present Mt
q Yamhill wedding last week.
Hens in Corvallis refuse to lay eggs
at less than 25 cents dozen.
A Democratic campaign paper is
to be published at Sacramento.
Over s3G, 900 was paid out to rail-
road hands at Eugene last week.
Geo. Kirk was hung by q mob in
Virginia City. Nevada, on the 14th.
A son Of A. J. Dufer, Of Portland,
was badly gored by bull last week.
Joseph Wetterer's safe, in Jackson
vile, was robbed of $3.50 last week.
A man was crushed to death in mill
machinery at Virginia, Nevada, on
the 18th.
A San Francisco reporter describes
Mrs. L. Cady Stanton as stout. forid
and jolly.
Several fine buildings were burned
in Marysville, CAL, last Monday.
Loss. 100000.
sPortlaBders desecrated the Sabbath
by big railroad excursion to Dutch
town last Sunday.
Yreka citizens issue an appeal for
assistance in building up their town,
destroyed by fire.
S. A. Clarke, the Statesman editor,
has returned to Salem from Astoria,
improved in health.
j. b. Newly, a Yamhill production,
has sued California paper for $780,
600 damages for libel.
Peace and plenty and rich har-
vest are the distinguishing features
of the Umpqua Valley.
Miss Eliza Stevens. OF Jackson
county. aged 16. siekened and died
in 20 minutes last week.
Mcpherson, OF Lane, and Con-
noyer, of Douglas county have both
gone to the insane asylum.
A brave Salem policeman mistooka n
whirlwind for the ghost Of Shultz.
the other night, and tainted.
John Wilson larceny-ed sG5 at Or
egon City and will doubtless 60 where
the woodbine twineth therefor.
A board fell from house OF Eu-
gene, striking J. Monroe on the lose
and nearly knocking his whole face
off.
Two ladies near Corvallis stoned q
"gassy" stage-driver. They ought
to be crooked to sleep" for their
pluck.
A little son of Mr.. Geers, at Butte
vile, was killed by getting rats poi
son last week. So says the Enter
prise.
The steamer "Owyhee" was wreck
ed in the Columbia, between Cello
and Lewiston, last Monday, and to-
tally destroyed.
Ben. Holladay is down at Clatsop
Beach and Jimmy O'Meara is over at
Yaquina, and the Bulletin is running
on its own hook.
The arsenal at Rio Janeiro was to-
tally destroyed by FIRE. The loss to
the Brazilian Government exceeds
300, 900 pounds.
Bad boys bathe in "undress uni.
form" in sight of ladies in Portland,
and our brethren of the cosmopolitan
journal wax worth thereat.
Zed. Wilson cried joyfully wher
the jury rendered verdict agains
him of murder in the second degree
This will learn him how to take {
joke.
There are $3.50 Indians on Reser
vations in Oregon, divided as follows
Men, 1 ,671; women, 2,277; children
2,011-the men being the smalles
class.
The Salem Statesman tells of q bat
sidewalk which came near breaking
a lady's leg. Why couldn't that fel
low say CLOVER limb" and save on
bushes?
| A little son of J. III. Upton, of Sa
lem, was badly injured by bein,
thrown from a wagon and carrie'