The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-01

FROM HARRISBURG.TA Harrisburg
correspondent informs US that farmers.
on the Willamette and on Muddy
Creek, neal that city, lost N immense
number of rails by the recent freshet.
The Methodists and Cumberland
Presbyterians of Harrisburg have In
progress a p~rotracted meeting and the
result so far has been a fruitful revival
of religion in that city.
S. p. Purdy and d. c. Holt, two
worthy young gentlemen of Harris
burg, have just returned from Portland
with diplomas from the Commercial
College.
The young people of Harrisburg are
making extensive preparations for a
school exhibition, which is tolbe given
during the last week in this month.
We are authorized to announce that
Hon. n. IL. Cranor has accepted an
invitation to address the Harrisburg
Democratic Club on Saturday, March
9th.
Jas. S. Grimes, Esq, who vas some
weeks ago badly injured at that city,
by a team running off, writes us that
he is fast recovering and will soon be
able to be about again on crutches.
He desires, through our columns, to
return his warmest thanks to the peo-
pie of Harrisburg for their Kindness
toward him inhis afiiiction.
FROM OCHoco.-Geo. Milliken, who
last Saturday arrived from Ochoco
(eid the Dallesl, states that the winter
in that section was much milder than
in other portions of Eastern Oregon,
and that the loss OF stock has been COM
p~aratively light. Jas. Elkins lost I
head, but they were of the number
which he drove there from this Valley
late in the season and were in very
poor condition to withstand even an
ordinarily severe winter. Jas. H..
Douthit and the remainder of the set
tiers had met with little or no loss.
Out of 5000 cattle belonging TO 10.
Teal, which were wintering between
Ochoco and the Dalles, only about 100
head are reported lost; and from n band
of 500 which were kept in Tygh Valley
no serious loss is reported, though the
owner was compelled to feed them for
about two months. When Mr.. NJ.
left Ochoco the snow had all disappear
ed and the hills were already covered
with a beautiful coat Of young grasa.
There had been no sickness in the VAL
ley during the winter, and settlers
were prosperous and in ju5ilant spirits.
ANOTHER ONE.-That Enoch Arden
fellow is becoming numerous. John
Wiley married and went to war; was
supposed to have been kill ID ut Spott-
sylvania, Va, in 1862; his "Annie dar-
ling was ''clleered up'' after three
years mourning by marrying VIM.
Smith who, like Philip Ray, loved her
not wisely, but too we'll, long before
Wiley married her. Years rolled on
and two little Smithses gamboled upon
the hearthstone and Wiley was scarce
remembered. 4 few days ago, howev-
er, he turned UP at the threshold of
Smith, took a good square hug with
his wife, when Smith gave him $500 to
~relinquish all claim to her, and the
Wiley cuss pocketed it and strobe off
for Colorado, a richer If not a happier
man. He says the Smith family are a
trump.
Mrs. DUNIwAY lectured in this city
last Monday night to a good audience.
We were unable to be present but learn
hat she attempted to make n Biblical
argument in favor of woman's rights,
in which she gave Adam fits for per-
uniting Eve TO snipe him into eating
the forbidden fruit, and also soundiy
berated ''that crusty old bachelor"
Paul, for interdieting women's CAB in
meeting andin public. She also boosted
of having "bossed" the State Temper
ance Convention, and asserted that she
had gained her point over the almost
united opposition of that body. She
fA1IGaIy Bays lil1E sAit Etto aitCl
the men they don't amount to the dig
nifty of ~huckleberry in a bears ear.
* CHASTITY PUgcHAsE.-Portiand
is laboring through a horrible sensa-
ton. The o. S. n. Co. last week sold
a lot of unclaimed freight at auction,
among which was a heavy box which
a merchant bought "on sight unseen,"
and when he took it to his house and
opened it he found therein the CHASTITY
corpse Off man., carefully packed in
straw, legs ccrumpfed up, flesh off Of
face, and corpse in the last stages of
~putrifaction. 1t now turns out that
the body is that of a man who was
hanged three years ago by v~igilantes in
idaho, and that it had been shipped to
friends in California, but had lain in
the Portland wharf three years because
the steamboat freight was not paid.
PERsoNAL.-Mrs. Duniway, editor
of the New Northwest, paid US the
compliment of a call on Tuesday. She
seemed to be in a good state Of preser-
walton after her forensic tilt with Bros.
Driver, Conser, Wooden, ct al, in the
State Convention, and says she is
bound to get away with the next Ore
gon Legislature.
"When a woman wills she will,
You may depend ont;
And when she won't she won't
And that's the end on,t.u
AT THE CLUB.-We were unavoida-