The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-09-20
PACIFIC coAsrEns.

Monmouth College has 100 stu
dents.
A large brick hotel is being erected
at Walla Walla.
Peaches are worth six dollars per
bushel in Portland.
Fires continue to rage in the noun
tains near Jacksonville.
Clackamas county has 81, ,91S, ,191
worth OF taxable property.
A vein of coal has been discovered
near Auburn Baker county.
The taxable property Of Benton
county foots up 81 SOC, 900.
Snow fell at Kootenia, British CO.
lumbia, on the 3lst OF August.
An infectious disease has broken
out among the cattle in Nevada.
Lafayette in Yamhill county asks
the Legislature for city charter.
Washington Territory owes S22,-
1s9 93, and has $9G6 46 wherewith to
pay.
The Ashland Academy will not be
opened until the latter part Of Octo-
ber.
Yamhill dogs subsist principally
upon mutton, slaughtered wherever
found.
1t is reported that Gen. 10 Lane
will take the stump in Oregon for
Greeley.
Minnie Myrtle Miller is in San
Francisco and will lecture on her
husband.
Peaches are almost abundant
enough at the Dalles to be u drug on
the market.
W. II. Odell Of Eugene City will
deliver the annual address at the
State Fair.
Late rains have done immense
damage to the grain crops all over
Idaho Territory.
Judge Matlock OF Oregon City is
hopelessly i'll. His disease is soften
ing Of the brain.
The Salem Mercury was four years
old last Saturday, and is large and
lively of its age.
The machinery of the Dalles Wool
en- Mill has been sold and will be
moved elsewhere.
James Dinwiddie of Lane county
tbressed 4 900 bushels of wheat from
field of 100 acres.
The Academy at Roseburg was
opened last Monday under the man
agement of S. W. Rice.
The Yreka Union says the frost in
Scott Valley last Saturday and Sun
day nights was very severe.
The cars on the West Side Rail
road reached Gaston's farm in YAM
hill county on the 18Th inst.
The Plaindeaier says that the Coos
Bay wagon road is the best mountain
road constructed in the State.
The trial OF Mrs. Laura ID. Fair
for the murder OF A. p. Crittenden
is in progress ut San Francisco.
The famous Arizona diamonds
are said to command about one dol
lar bnshel in the home market.
The time required to travel from
Jacksonville TO Portland by stage
and rail is less than thirty hours.
The exempt firemen of San Fran
cisco have expended 81, GOO for fu
neral expenses during the past year
The Central Pacific Railroad earn
ed 81 ,2sS.000 in August, making
nearly nine millions this year SO far
The amount of through freight OF
the Central Pacific Railroad duriue
the month of August was ATS tons
Mr.. A. Cantrell, of Benton county
has purchased number of Angort
Goats which he proposes to introduce
on his farm.
The Mountatneer says there are
enough vagabond "siwashes" about
the Dailes to start good sized Indi
an Agency.
Over one thousand patents for land
claimants have been received at the
Land Office at Olympia during the
past month.
Silas Rich, of Prickly Pear valley
Montana, has a field of wheat which
he claims will average eighty bushels
to the acre.
The Library of the Willamette
University contains 1000 volumes
all first-class works and some of then
very valuable.
Goldsmith Maid and Lucy have
arrived in San Francisco and will try
their speed against Stanford's horse
at an early day.
The jury in the Fair murder case
is now full. Nine hundred and fifty
were called before twelve qualified
were obtained.
The wife of Mr.. Thos. Cross, o.
Salem, was thrown from buggy and