The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-11-17

that they arrest suspicious looking
cows caught out after night in that
city.
In the Woman's Suffrage Convon-
ton at Olympia the lady who presid-
ed was addressed as " Mrs. Chair
man."
Portland is agitating the project OF
tho Portland, Dalles and Salt LIKE
Railroad. A land grant is to be
asked for.
Kalama has "suburb." It is two
miles east OF the new Chicago"
At present it is cabbS\ ! patch, but
it has brilliant future.
Over 800 Democrats Of Santa Cruz
county. CAL. refused to vote at the
election last month, because OF the
New Departure platform.
A fellow last week accidentally
found himself the owner of another
mans horse and now mouldeEs in
durance vile at Roseburg.
The California papers are jubilat-
ing over u shower of rain which they
have recently had. We would like
to divide ours with them.
About $50 Cinnamon left Portland
for China last Monday, to spend
the New Year Festival in their native
land. May they never return.
A carpenter insulted another mans
wife at Walla Walla and is now laid
up with many stripes" The in
dignant husband wasn't arrested.
II n foolish woman in Portland
hadn't given her child box OF
matches to play with she would not
now be in mourning for the babe.
The negroes OF Portland swear
their children shall go to school with
the white ones or "dar is gwine TO be
heap oh trouble in dem diggins. .
The Oregon City Enterprise COM
mcnces volume 6 with new heading.
Bro. Noltner makes a coed paper
aud takes no new departure in his'n
The Enterprise speaks Of a son oi
President Grant being in Oregon
City last week. He was quickly hus.
tied OF to the reservation again how.
ever.
A young maiden Of the Chinese
persuasion was kidnapped at Port
land last Monday, and carried off OF
n vessel bound for her own Flowery
land.
The niggers and Cinnamon of Eu.
gene are having an ''irrepressibl'
conflict" Several bloody snouts ant
disheyeled cues have been the result
so far.
A bold thief stole the Sheriff E
looking glass in Portland. Tha:
cuss evidently wanted 70 "see himsel
as ithers see him." The wall of the
/ Jail is now his mirror.
/ A crew of sailors who were wreck
ed in the Arctic ocean last year, have
Just landed in San Francisco. They
passed last winter in Esqnimaux hut
and lived on putrid whales.
A Portland thief couldn't nccoun
TO the officer for being caught with I
bundle of bed clothes and ladies
dresses under his arm, aad now Ian
guishes in damp dungeon.
/ A Montana hunter bagged band
OF mountain sheep by chopping 1
tree down on them. Don't you thinl
the sheep were awful fools, or els'
this is terrific lie? We do.
! A San Francisco Chinaman's nc
count of the Chicago calamity is a
follows: "Melican Iiish boy take
kelosine lamp and milk COW; GOV
kick over lamp; up go Chicago"
1t is said that Ben. Holladay is ne
gotiating the purchase of the o. S
n. Company's line of steamers Oh
the Columbia. Ben. will have Ore
gon right by the ears pretty soon.
A Portland actress attempted Il
"pass in her checks" by the aid O
morphine last week, but the crue
physician purged it out of her ant
she is forced to live yeta little longer
The Roseburg Plaindealer says Joa
quin Miller, who has returned t
Oregon, has grown old and care
worn in appearance in the past i
months. His Pegasus is evidently
rough "hoss."
A deer ran from the foot hills int
Corvallis last week, and was shot i
the streets of that rural city. Coz
Wallis ought to have o law agains
shooting deer, elk, bear, etc. with
the city limits
It is inferred that the two editor
of Santa Barbara are not friendly
One refers to the other as "a ma
that no decent member of commit
nifty would trust in his smoke hous
without being muzzled."
A Chinese convict was pardone
from the Penitentiary the other da
on merit marks, and in leaving h
old nuarterS undertook to steal L