The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-06-02

llteig ateOsteu Us uti the stiSCet AatfAU-
ducing himself as nMr. Sprague, of
Molalla, Clackamas county, Oregon
Stated that he was originally born of
poor but honest parentage, aud didn't
claim to have ever ..seen better days.
He had just arrived In town with
twenty-one G-horse teams loaded with
four million three thousand two hum
slred and nine shingles fall his own)
which he was taking to the new city of
Halsey to use upon eight warehouses
and five brick blocks which he design
ed erecting there during the coming
season. This frank statement of the
''solid" circumstances of "Mr. Sprague
from Molalla, completely subsidized
us, and when he blandly asked for two
bits with which to get his clean shirt
from the Celestial laundry, we consid-
cred ourself only too happy in being
permitted to- place in his oatstretched
palm double the amount desired, and
walked away wonderingiy surnising
why the dear Mr.. Sprague of Molalla
didn't discover sufficient encourage
ment in our benevolent phizamahoga-
ny to warrant him in asking for the
loan of our box of paper collars and
Sunday cuffs and other apparel incl
dent to u country editors tirst-class
wardrobe. 1t Is perhaps needless to
add that we subsequently learned that
Mr.. Sprague of Molalla is a failure so
far as 6-horse teams and shingles and
warehouses and brick blocks and clean
shirts at .wash-houses are concerned,
but that as searcher after greensnaps
he is an eminent success.
THAT FAIR.-The Fair and Festival,
given by the young ladies of the L. p.
Mite Society, last evening, was the
incest affair with which our city has
been favored for many years. The long
room I'm which the Fair was held was
crowded with people TO its utmost ca
pacity, and all expressed themselves in
the highest terms in commendation of
the enterprise. On the counters were
displayed many articles of utility and
beauty, all of which evineed the rare
taste and excellent discrimination of
the young ladies, and the rapid sales
made was the highest eneomium which
could he passed upon them by those in
attendance. And who could help buy
ing from those beauteous damsels,
dressed i'm such elegant and appropriate
style and dispensing their sweet-smiles
in protiigal profusion upon their willing
customers. The little fairies complete
" strapped ''the subscriber long be-
fore the .'witchii z hour of twelve"
warned us to seek our abode. The
strawberries and cream, cake, and 9TH
er refreshments, were delicious and
served with that rare taste which made
them doubly appreciable.
WIN. -DAvIDsoN's MAP OF PoRT-
LANDING find in the last issue of the
Ne,c Northwest the following notice OF
Mr.. VIM. Davidson's map and sketch
of Portland, in which we concur:
VIM. Davidson, the irrepressible, in
defatigable, enterprisiag and reliable
real estate dealer, No. 81 Front street,
has just completed Il pocket map of the
city of Portland, which is, in our judg-
ment, the most perfect map OF the city
extant. Accompanying the map is a
concise and comprehensive sketch, from
which the immigrant can learn much in
a short compass. In alluding To the
commercial advantages OF the city, Mr..
Davidson SAYS: ''Portland.S as the CEN
ter of a vast and prosperous manufac-
turing interest, at no very distant day,
has been greatly overlooked. So abun-
dant is the water and so rapid is the fall
that it can be carried by canal for up
rsi~ af Fl 20 I.a
falls at Oregon City, and the entire dis
tance can be made available BY the use
of the turbine water wheel and other
modern inventions, and not even Low
ell, the Sheffield of New England and
the weaithiest manufacturing city OF
the Union, can compare in extent and
yastness with the unlimited wafer pow
er that can be furnished for the various
manufacturing interests of this COM
merciai emporium of the State"
A TERRIFIC SToRa.-Last Saturday
night this vicinity was visited by a
storm which is almost unprecedented
in the history of Oregon. The thun-
der roared through space with terrible
noise, vivid flashes of lighting lit up
the heavens in almost continuous
blaze, the wind blew almost a hurri-
cane, and the rain descended in copious
torrents. We fear Oregon is losing her
identity, and is suiting her climatic
procliyities to the taste of the Iowa
and Missouri immigrants who have re-
Gently swarmed into her borders. In
deed these be strange tinesi
UNK WEED.-Messrs. r. G.. Hill &
Son, druggists of this city, are agents
for the celebrated "Unk Weed Remedy
or Oregon Rheumatic Cure" manufac-
tured by DR.. A. NJ. Loryea & Co., East
Portland. The Portland papers are
now publishing numerous testimonials
as to the efficacy of this medicine from
various prominent citizens of Oregon.
Messrs. A. r. Shipley, A. J. Dufur,
Gideon Tibbetts, James Bybee, E. L.
Quimby and Nat. LANE are among
the gentlemen thus publicly testifying
to the merits of the Unk Weed.
"PERsoNAL.u-Ani idiot advertises in
Mrs. Duniway's paper for wife, and
she would be an idiot who would an
swer 1T. A man who hasn't spunk and
energy enough to start out and hunt
one up, is unfit to assume the response
BILE duties of husband, and woman
who would reply to, an anonymous
ibid" for her person and estate through
newspaper is too immodest or BRAIN
less for the sacred sphere of wifehood
The willamette Farmer has been
presented with Greeley's book, entitled