The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-15

nment. Her death would bring the
Prince Of Wales to the throne, an
event the prisoner does not desire.
A dispatch from Brownsville, Tex
as, says that on Monday a party of
armed men, supposed to be Cortinas',
crossed the river at Santa Maria ranch,
thirty-fve miles from there, and cap
tured all the residents, including two
Custom Inspectors. They held them
prisoners while a thousand head of
cattle were stolen and crossed. They
then released the prisoners and re-
turned to the other side.
Monday, March II.
Three negroes entered q house and
murdered an old man in the presence
Of his aged wife, at Shelby City, KY,
yesterday.
Quite an excitement was created at
the Burlington and Ohio railroad de-
pot at Wheeling, this evening by the
discovery of box shipped from Gin
%cinnati to Thornton, West Virginia,
which proved to contain the remains
of a human being-head, legs, arms,
hands, etc, completely severed from
the body. 1t is believed to be the
corpse Of a female. The discovery
was made by a portion of the lid be-
ing knocked off in transferring the
box, when a piece of the mutilated
body dropped out.
Tuesday, March IL.
The Unionvill, (Southe Carolina,)
Times reports that parties arrested
for alleged Ku-Klnxism were r~e-arrest-
in Marion county last week by Depu-
ty United States Marshal Williams.
Much excitement exists throughout
the county, where complete quiet and
harmony has prevailed for many
months. Business of all kinds has
suddenly been suspended, and in
many instances work has been aban-
doned aud laborers discbarged-the
owners being unwilling TO risk plant
ing a crop, owing to the prevailing
uncertainty.
Henry Landers fatally shot his faith
CIR at Arcoia, Ills, last week.
A horrible murder Of a wife and
three children by the husband, was
committed at a farm house six miles
from Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday,
The wife was found in bed naked and
strangled, and the children, aged eight
and six years, and six months, respect
ively, were found on the bank of a
creek a short distance from the house.
The infants skull was crushed, and
the two elder children were evidently
drowned, and afterwards taken from
the creek. The murderer's name is
Vanguard. lie is arrested and is be-
lieved to be insane.
Gen. Longstreet and Gov. War
mouth, of Louisiana, both pronounce
against President Grant for Presi-
dent.
Wednesday, March ID.
A Dayton special gives the testi-
mony before a Coroncr's jury Of El;Z-
abeth, aged Z, and Eabbakuk, aged 6,
surviving children, of Leonard Mar
guard. They say. after dark Satur-
day night. their parents hunted for all
the children, but they hid. They
heard their parents take the other
children, the mother taking the two
eldest, and the father the baby
There was a light; they saw their
father and mother kill these three
with their own hands. The father
killed the baby first, then the mother
killed Leah and Samuel. They then
came into the house naked and began
to pray to God. They saw the three
dead upon the ground. and the mother
and father naked. The two children
were hunted for by the parents after
the death of the three. but were not
found. They got away to \ straw
stack ut daylight on Sunday, and
stayed there, where they were found
in the afternoon.
Another amorous preacher, named
Rev. DIR. Carter, is now mixed up
with n seduction scandal in New
York.
Attorney Ger. Bates. of Utah, re-
fuses to resign, though Grant urgently
invites him to do SO.
The American Government after
mature deliberation has resolved to
present their case to the General
Tribunal on the 18th of April, in ac-
cordance with terms of the Treaty of
Washington, even if the British Ar
bitrators are not present, and will in
sist on proceeding TO arbitration re-
gardless of n protest or withdraw
on the part of Grea. Britain.
The great New York Erie ring, OF
which Jay Gould is chief, has been
overthrown.
The grand Jury of Hudson county,
New Jersey, made presentmen to
the Court, yesterday, finding eighty
three indictments against nearly every
official in the county and in Jersey
City.
DoN'T LIKE IT.-The OregoniGn is
hugely Disguised with the Multno-
NAH Radical Convention of last Sat
urday. The following whitening sar-