The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-08

est trees --of all sizes-were either
twisted off, like weeds, or blown up
by the roots.
A San Francisco Irishman bought
a wife for bag ofpotatoes last week.
That was Murphy for Murphies."
Oregon City, one of the earliest
settlements on the Northwest coast,
has population Of less than 1900.
The Dutch have .aken Holland
or in other words the Radicals car
ried the Salem election last Monday
Joaquin Miller has sailed for Mexi-
co and will so from there to England
to publish another volume of poems.
A Portland Chinaman was fined
$50 for hiding under q gentleman 8
bed without any reasonable excuse.
A Portland paper says Miss Carrie
Moore, the skatist, skates gracefully
without showing her indelicacy."-
Good.
Judge Lake shot and wounded De
Young, Of the San Francisco Chron-
icle, last Friday. Cause, newspaper
attack
The grand jury in Pima county,
Arizona, lately found Ill indict-
ments, los of which were for murder.
The fall term OF the Corvallis Col
lege closes next Friday and the win
ter term will begin on Monday fol-
lowing.
We have n rumor from Washington
Territory that both Judge Kennedy
and Gov. Solomon have tendered
their designations.
The Vancouver Register says that
the Olympia Tribune turned against
Garfelde because he wouldn't subsi-
die it.
Mrs. Sullivan, who killed her hus-
band brother for an attempt upon
her virtue, has been acquitted at
Martinez.
There was considerable space in
tho Wea Side for items last week, but
we couldn't tell whether its was occu-
pied or not.
In Montana the Blackfeet and
Crow Indians are raiding on each
other, and herds of horses are chang
ing hands fast.
The boys and girls of Jacksonville
play the "prehaps game" by sliding
down hill on the snow Don't We
wish we were those
r. A. Abbott and Albert Lamb,
contractors of the y. =. Il. r., have
absconded, leaving debts in Portland
amounting to $4,000.
Miss Mary Beach, an estimable
young lady, fell dead while dancing
a cotillon, at Manti, Utah, on the
night OF the llth inst.
Pumpelly, of Jefferson last Monday
received s75 damages for being cjec-
ted from the State Fair ground under
the odious badge rule.
Two Portland gentlemen are suf-
fering vile incarceration at the
State Hotel. for biting off noses and
ears in a miscellaneous fight.
A Corvallisite ate IL pounds of
oysters one evening last week. II
he wasn't in the nightmare business
after that we aren't prophet.
Ben Holidays steamboat, Sena-
tor, sunk in feet of water, between
Oregon City and Portland, last Fri
day. A cargo of 200 tons was lost.
A few days ago Edward Hunt was
drowned in the Payette river, Idaho.
He was fording the stream on horse
back and was swept into deep water.
Mean Portland cusses amuse them
selves by fastening the fire bells so
they can't be sounded for q fire
alarm. They deserve fire and brirn-
stone.
A Portlander named Bird is mad
because his team ran away and threw
him head-first into a manure pile
That Bird is evidently a dunghill
rooster.
The motion to quash the indict-
ments against Brigham Young and
others for murder, is still under
hearing before the U. s. District
Court.
The storms of wind and snow in
Utah have exceeded anything ever
before known. The snow has drifted
in places, and the weather is intense
ly cold.
The young ladies of Portland have
q sewing school to teach poor chill
dren free of charge how to use the
needle. This is laudable and noble
enterprise.
All'hope Of the safety of the bark
Live Yankee, which sailed from Port
land for San Francisco a month ago,
is abandoned, as she has never been
heard from since.
A poor man in Portland has been
swindled out of nancy by asupposed
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