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


selves tnfavorably impressed with that
country. Mr.. Purtiom informs lis that
the grazing lands of Big Valley conn
prise about 800 square miles, but as 1t is
nearly all short bunch grass the oppor-
tunities for hay are very poor, and con-
sequently stock must grow thin in the
winter season or be driven off to some
more favorable section. There are
about - square miles of tillable lands
in the valley, all requiring irrigation.
The crops look quite promising this sea-
son. but the harvest will be much later
than In this valley. There are perhaps
twenty thousand herd of cattle at pres
ent in Big Valley, and the grass is fast
disappearing before the rapacious de-
mands of so many capacious stomachs.
Those of the settlers who have been so
fortunate as to secure claims aud are
able to stock them are quite prosperous
and eontented, but the eligible claims
are about all taken, and many people
who have failed to secure favorable
lands are retracing their steps to civili-
zation or are penetrating further into
the frontier In search of favorable lands
for settlement. There are u couple of
little stores and postoffice in the val
ley, and school houses and other marks
of permanent civilization are fast ris-
ing into view. Neither of the gentle
men above alluded to are sufficiently
favorably impressed with that country
to desire a home there, consequently
they will not return, but will continue
to reside in Linn county.
>DEAD.-Hon. f. b. Moore, of Har-
risburg, died at his residence in that
city on last Wednesday, after linger-
ing illness of several months, and was
buried by the Masonic Fraternity yes
ter,lay. Brother Moore was a man of
rare business tact and energy, n
useful and public-spirited citizen, and
an upright and honorable gentleman,
and the people all over the county will
mourn his death as q public calamity.
His stricken widow and orphan chill
dren have the warmest sympathy of n
large circle of friends in their great
bereavement. Brother, may the sprig
of acacia, planted over thy tomb, be a
perfect type of the immortal joy upon
which thy pure spirit has entered, and
may the Grand Architect of the Uni
verse grant thee everlasting refresh
~. htc Celestial 4 ole ~
Perfection. So mote it be.
R@ Mart. Brown, of the State Rights
Democrat, and Coll. Van Cleve, of the
Albany Register, favor us with call
occasionally, when the press of busi-
ness will permit. We are always
pleased tosee them. They are both the
very best of good boys. If we were
compelled to part with one of them and
had our choice which we should keen,
we hardly know how We should decide,
but think we should freeze to Mart, he
has got so much the tallest and slickest
hat!-Crter's Real Estate Special.
Blessed, thrice blessed hatt Thou
hast kept US from being second best''
in the affections of even areal estate
dealer. And much as we regret to part
with our little old hat, yet it must pass
into the shades of obscurity and the
stately bee-gum shall hereafter grace
our cranium, rising thus as monu-
ment to typify the height to which a
real estate dealers affections may as
pire.
Co2oNER's INoUEsT.-Last Friday
r. II. Powers, J. p, summoned n jury
and repaired to the Calipooia, ten miles
north of this city, and held an inquest
Richardson, who was drowned in April
last by falling from the railroad bridge,
and whose remains were not discovered
until last week, when they had iloated
to the surface of the water some feet
below the bridge. The jury consisted
of s. Z. Young, p. G. Harper, J. r
Herren, d. Mansfield, w. r. Cannon
A. H. Marshall. The verdict of the
jury was in accordance with the facts
above stated. DIR. Tate, examining
physician, stated that the body was in
bad state of decomposition-thel lower
jaw, left foot and both hands having
been already separated from it by the
process of decay. There were found OF
the person of the deceased four silver
half dollars, one-bladed spring-bacE
knife, coarse comb, a cigar-holder, {
heavy plain gold ring and a bras:
watch-check bearing the figures II
Squire Powers had the body decentIy
inferred at the expense of the county
CLEAR AS MUD.-An Idaho papei
says that in that Territory "the ravage.
of an insect, cicada septemdecim, il
terrible. The insect does it with hi
haustellum." This is something en-
tirely new for Mr.. Greeley to add t.
what he knows about farming. But i
is somewhat ambiguous. Had the edi
tor been little more explicit, he nigh
have shown how the teZZerinctum O
the certiorari was overcome by tn,
paraphernalia of the evanescent sub
pnna, and its inherent redundancy dis
PEELED by the inner eperdemis of tn
orifiamme.-Eugene Guard.
Viewing this subject from the esoteri
standpoint of Christian exegetica
analysis, and agglutinating the poly
theistical scotograph of homogeniou
asceticism, we perceive at once the en-
i tire individuality of the entierty
whereas from that other standpoint @
incredulous synchysis which character
ICES the Xenocratic hierocracy of tn
animal, we are constantly impresse
with the entirely antiperistatical quail
ities thereof Don't it?
/ FoUND.-On the Salem road jus
below Albany, sack of womans ar