The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-12-20
Montana Territories-and Misthress

McDuniway would like to be.
The N. p. II. r. is completed to
within 40 miles of the Missouri river.
Work is suspended for the winter.
Both the candidates for Sheriff at
the late election in Thurston county,
w. T.. have married since the election.
In Utah the people are holding
fast days and praying to God to pre-
vent the small.pox from coming that
way.
A neglected Portland wife last
Tuesday evening snatched her, hus-
band out of a saloon by the cleft
year."
Olympia has water works. This
valley is pretty well supplied with
that same, ut least during tho winter
mouths.
Sam. Sykes, of Portland, was last
Tuesday ordered by Portland jury
to pay Annie Golden 81, 500 for Sc
duction.
Frisco now cant put on any more
frills over Portland because its had
the earthquakes. Portland's had
EN-, too.
An Owyhee member of the Idaho
Legislature is now sadly singing,
ooh where is my pocket book now
gone to?"
A Baker county man has found
Platina and wants her assayed.
That process will probably charge
her name.
Miss Kate Denim, of San Francis
co, is the star actress ut Portland
Orc Fino Theater now. She is said
to be huge.
The Araches have got the horse
disease. At any rate, they ache for
horse-fesh, and have again gone to
stealing it.
The first spike "a silver one) was
driven, October 27, in tho first tie of
the Phoebe and Bullionville Narrow
Guage Railway.
An attempt TO fight duel was re-
Gently made, at Santa Fe, By some
officers, whom c eneral Pope is going
TO cou.t-martial.
Now lots of Jacksonville folks
want to know where he is. Which
bis name it is Dennis, and his pro-
fession is "bilk."
A man at Victoria last Saturday
night bet his last half dollar on
"rondo." and upon losing it. dropp-
ed dead instantly.
An Ashland boy received n dollar
for learning 500 Bible verses, and
has bought with it handsome deck
of linen-hack cards.
David Yinson, while hunting near
Buckeye. Yolo county. on Saturday
last, killed two deer with one shot
from Spencer rife.
Grand Lodge, A. +. & A. NJ,
Washington Territory. recommends
to her subordinates that no fees for
afiliation be charged.
Portland papers are delivered in
that city on horseback. We s'pose
that is because the subscribers are
few and far between.
A Vallejo man last week danced
81 consecutive hours for n wager.
And the deplorable fact stares us in
the face that he still lives.
Barnum, the great Snowman, owns
80, 0,0C0 acres in Colorado and 5000
head of cattle. ard has gone into the
business of raising horses.
The united ages OF couple who
applied for marriage license from the
Clerk of Multnomah county last
Wednesday. was 11s years.
The Santa Clara Farmers Club
last Saturday adjourned it's meeting
for one week, out Of respect to the
memory of Horace Greeley.
The Express says there are thou
sands of acres of the richest kind of
land in Pierce county, w. T., which
is yet unsurveyed and unsettled.
A little Mormon girl FIVE years old
was burned to death at Bear Lake
Valley few days ago in consequence
of her clothes taking fire from stove.
Geo A. Yeaton now languishes in
California prison for blessing two
women with his name Mt the same
time. They both wanted him put
there.
A murderer recently escaped from
the Lewiston. Qdaho,) Jail, but it
was too cold on the outside and he
came back and gave himself up to
the Sheriff.
The Roseburg Pentagrdph pub
fishes the Presidents Message as a
continued story, and thus snipes it's
readers into the belief that it is lit
erary paper.
An Idaho editor says he thought
the climate was proof against ague,
but that during the past few days he